Word: clock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who wander through Vancouver itself--and everyone should--there is wide culinary variety, everything from Afghan to Mexican. On Granville Island, a yuppie heaven of high-priced condominiums and boutiques, several good restaurants on the water top coffee and dessert with a view of the 10 o'clock fireworks display, which signals the fair's nightly closing...
Rodney McRay threw an ordinary inbounds pass to Sampson with one second showing on the clock. There's still the controversy as to whether "00:01" means that there is between zero and one second, or one and two seconds of play remaining--but that's another story...
...when the clock stopped, Fate had sided with bad basketball...
...Gilda Radner. At the tail end of the boom, the last members of the vast litter are graduating from college this spring and stepping into a not notably waiting world. Members of a generation that has made a pastime out of prolonged adolescence are being forced by the biological clock to face up to the responsibilities of adulthood--to their parents, to their children, to one another...
...sound hip to his children." But he has to hang in there. A father must "never say, 'Get the kids out of here, I'm trying to watch TV.' If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the 6 o'clock news." Should all this seem a little familiar, that is Cosby's point. Fatherhood has changed, but not that much. The Library of Congress has cataloged the new book under "Fathers--Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc." That gets it about right...