Word: canings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brandenberg-Horn, who uses a cane to help him walk, has been placed on temporary disability leave. He may later go on permanent disability and receive payments until his retirement in three years...
...time hydrologists figured this out, it was almost too late. A huge earthen dam had been thrown up along the southern lip of Lake Okeechobee and a great swath of the northern Everglades transformed into prized farmland -- source of most of the U.S.'s cane sugar and 10% of its winter vegetables. To speed development and protect those farmlands from flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s began laying down a system of ditches so vast that astronauts can spot its outlines from space: 1,400 miles of levees, pipes and canals. Today nature's cycle had been...
Central Barber Shop, which provides a low-cost cut for the bargain price of $8, is marked as a standard barber shop by the spinning red, white and blue striped candy cane outside its door...
Dream of a garden painted by Rousseau, under the canopy of a huge Tiffany lampshade and inhabited by creatures from Fellini's or Tim Burton's wittiest musings. In this Day-Glo, candy-cane fantasia, the whole food chain is on display. The roustabouts wriggle like worms; some of the featured artistes are dressed as tigers or lizards. The clowns could be from a Greenwich Village Halloween parade: Munchkins and bathing beauties, Road Warriors and samurai. This is a circus even Madonna could love -- commedia dell'arte as restaged by surrealists in a birthday-party mood...
...camaraderie in times of frivolity and mourning. He doesn't want to attend -- and diss -- one more AIDS memorial at which the guest stars are "the Gay Men's Chorus, Vanessa Redgrave, Siegfried and Roy." He can't bear to "see one more 28- year-old man with a cane...