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...Philippines. Sporadically at first, then with increasing blatancy, the long-awaited exercise was marred by unsettling levels of violence, fraud, vote buying and ballot theft. More than a day after the polls closed, the official vote count by the Marcos-dominated Commission on Elections (COMELEC) had slowed to a crawl. Communications linking that effort to a parallel, informal vote count by a volunteer organization known as the National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) had been severed. In many parts of the country, private citizens spent the night after the vote protecting ballot boxes with their bodies. Senate Foreign Relations...
...outplayed Yale in the second half but just dug too deep a hole to crawl out of," Delaney Smith said. "They took us completely out of our game and we were just never able to recover," she added...
...could see. They had taken me to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when I was six, and when the wicked queen turned into a hag and a skeleton crumbled into pieces, I burst into tears and started shaking. For three or four nights I had to crawl into bed with...
...Stay Up Late," the album's most tersely phrased song domestic life--something new for a band known for shying away from such stable themes--has invaded the lyrics. "Stay Up Late" is about playing with a little kid: watching him drinks, crawl across a floor and wear a little red suit...
...could say that The Goonies is not so much a movie as the kinetic model for a theme-park attraction: the Pirate Fun House (& Restaurant). Tiptoe past the men's room and peek at a SCARY MONSTER! Crawl through a fireplace into a SPOOKY CHAMBER! Elude the clutches of an EVIL ITALIAN GANG! See the underground WATERFALL, the infernal CANNONBALL, the DEATH ORGAN and the very many SKELETONS! Hurtle down the FLUME to the cavern containing a genuine imitation 17th century PIRATE SHIP! Get out ALIVE! (And have a nice day.) As in any fun house, the pleasures here...