Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time the river reached them on July 13, Nick and Crystal Goedereis had removed everything possible -- livestock, heirlooms, even portable buildings -- from their 150-acre homestead along the rich banks of the Mississippi near Quincy, Illinois. But they still defiantly spent their last night in sleeping bags on the bare living room floor. "We didn't want to leave," says Crystal. "It was our home...
Repeatedly over the 160 years since Nick's family first tilled the land, the river had reached out to destroy the crops. But each time, the family had returned to replant and prosper. This was different. The river, recalls Crystal, "was like something possessed." For weeks now, the Mississippi has occupied their five-bedroom home, its undercurrents "shaking the house apart, ripping away the studs from the siding and Sheetrock," as Nick describes it. Unlike past flash floods, which were over in days, the waters may not recede for four months, and the family may not be able to replant...
...very familiar way. In New York City. With a love song playing. And a long climb to the top of some building. By the time Ryan gets to top of the Empire State (to hook up with Hanks), there's only one question left: Where's Billy Crystal...
...Watching a Lampoon event honoring comedian Billy Crystal, Lowell House sophomore Theodore P. Klupinski '95, falls from a Claverty Hall fire escape and is seriously injured. Klupinski missed the first semester of the school year but returned healthy for the spring term...
Well, for one thing, it's the Clintons' sheer, star-loving promiscuity. Making time during the first 125 days for Billy Crystal, Barbra Streisand, Sharon Stone (twice), Richard Gere, Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Quincy Jones, Sinbad, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Sam Waterston, Hammer, Lindsay Wagner and Judy Collins is a remarkable achievement. When Hillary Rodham Clinton, after seeing Liza Minnelli sing on TV, calls and asks her to stay overnight, it looks frivolous, a little unseemly...