Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...satisfying man's greed, lust and appetite for novelty. In independent Kenya, where he returns to observe, only the Tusker beer seems to be the same. Many of his friends are gone, the game is scarcer and, as Hanley had noticed in much of East Africa, "the cement mixers are massing on the horizon...
...union crews are an odd assortment of kids and "union types." For every toothless 50-year old veteran of hockey riots, there's a pimply-faced adolescent in a Mickey Mouse T-shirt. They're setting up the orchestra chairs in blocks of four on the cement floor. The leader of a Garden union crew is easy to find. He's shouting. In fact, all pre-show vocal business at the Garden is carried out at the top of the lungs...
...ENTERING FREE WOODVALE. Four such areas in Belfast, plus one in Londonderry, are now permanently "nogo" for British troops, with entry blocked by steel girders, cement slabs, or masked U.D.A...
...cast concrete planks resembles the way a child's popsiclestick toy raft is constructed. After the girders are put in place, the thin 60-foot-long planks are laid adjacent to one another and sealed weathertight. In some cases, the sealing has been reinforced with epoxy glue, a cement that when hardened is stronger than the concrete...
...they're gaining on us." The whole bit. There is a tantalizing five minutes when it seems the inevitable men with the inevitable plate glass window will negotiate the chase sequence unscathed. But Bogdanovich leaves no stock response untriggered, and the glass is finally shattered as satisfyingly as the cement-layer's sidewalk is ruined. It all ends as predictably as it began. Chaos sifts down to order, boy gets girl, villain gets lost...