Word: chuting
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...crossed the finish line at 4:01:30. Somewhere around the 20-mile mark, I had passed my running partner. Dazed and depleted, but with a smile of pride plastered across my face, I stumbled into the chute and started the long walk to recovery...
...successes that include the Fellini-directed La Strada (1954), Serpico (1974), King Kong (1976) and Conan the Barbarian (1982). But the hits have been overshadowed by hundreds of commercial duds, most notably the $50 million sci-fi film Dune, a 1984 mega-flop that helped send Dino down the chute...
...complaints leveled against Harvard allegedthat the asbestos was not removed beforedemolition, which released dry, crumbling asbestosinto the air; the construction area was not sealedand the debris was dropped down a chute into anopen dumpster...
...empty stations bricked up since 1961, when the Wall rose. The platforms are bare, eerily lighted by a few dusty neon tubes. East German border guards have learned to replace their studied sullenness of old with the occasional smile, but West Germans and others still must file through cattle-chute-like passport control points, and are made to exchange 25 deutsche marks ($13.50) for East German marks, at the usurious rate of 1 to 1, one-tenth the black market quote, for every day they spend in the German Democratic Republic. In the evenings, the smell of coal smoke hangs...
...lean dreams too. "George and Steven may be living out their childhood fantasies on film," he says, "but I didn't come from the same crate of oranges." Indeed not. "My first childhood ambition was to be the guy who carried the coal from our house to the coal chute in a wheelbarrow. I remember there was this big pile of coal, and then he did his job, and then there was no coal. I liked the rhythm of his work. It was a job you could see getting done. My dad would come home from his job and talk...