Word: coaster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will get used to a different diet and still lay golden eggs." Garten was not so sure: "The viability of Hong Kong as a financial center depends on an elusive sense of international confidence that could be lost. This relationship between Hong Kong and China will be a roller coaster...
...small eyes focused on you with intensity. Then he would look away, far away, perhaps at some distant vision of the China he wanted to build, or possibly at the memory of some past indignity he had survived on his roller-coaster ride between history and oblivion. His hands gestured constantly, and until his family stopped him, he chain-smoked. To those in thrall to the urbane charm of his old ally Zhou Enlai, Deng seemed crude, speaking with a guttural Sichuanese accent and always keeping a spittoon next to his chair. His size--he was truly tiny...
...Small World Order" was a small world after all, "Monkey Town" seemed more like a big huge roller coaster of Tomorrowland. It starts out smoothly enough, with a camera crew preparing Santa (played by Moreno) for a TV show. As the film begins to roll and Santa smiles for the camera, the theater becomes a TV screen, or vice-versa. What follows is an extremely nutty, comedic and exuberantly memorable scene involving Santa and a lobotomized Rosemary Kennedy, who together are preparing to do battle with Communism in America...
After a roller coaster winter which ended with the Crimson just two goals shy of going to the NCAA Tournament, there is a feeling that this year's team can take it that extra step...
...unavoidable aspect of academic life at Harvard. In our four-year journey here, our relationship with sections is in constant flux and development. If Verdi had been at Harvard he would have said, "La sections et mobile" ("how fickle are sections"). Sections take us on a real emotional roller coaster. Each year marks the beginning of a new stage in this stormy romance...