Word: detectors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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City councilor David Sullivan, a proponent of the original detector ordinance, said yesterday HRE should have been able to comply with the law by the time it took effect this month. "They've had 19 months," Sullivan said, adding tenants might be able to withhold rents until the detectors were installed. The Harvard Tenants Union mentioned the delay in a letter to Zeckhauser last week...
...about security for Washington's 39th successor to the presidency, the prudent but unromantic federal agents forced the play-acting colonial troops to surrender all but a few of their 50 cannons, temporarily confiscated their flints and black powder and subjected each make-believe soldier to a metal detector's scan. No matter: the glory of re-created victory was undimmed. Over the sunny Virginia meadows marched 2,200 ersatz Revolutionaries. There were French infantry of the Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment in their gleaming white uniforms; authentically ragtag colonials, including the Barnstable Militia of Cape Cod, some...
...months without professional commitments. She plays with Gippy, escapes with her husband whenever they can to a tree farm they bought not long ago in Dutchess County, and when she is in Manhattan tries to stay out of midtown, where every tourist comes equipped with a celebrity detector. She and Gummer are moving from his loft in Tribeca, an area in downtown Manhattan favored by artists, to a larger but equally unpretentious place just to the north, in Little Italy. Streep is now and forever a New Yorker, without a trace of a tan or of West Coast show...
Franny. The eldest Berry daughter, who has inherited her mother's fudge-detector. Early on, for example, she perceives that timid Brother John is deeply in love with her. The unorthodox resolution of this passion is postponed many years because of Franny's reaction to being gang-raped by preppies. But honesty, blood ties and spunk prevail. She is avenged and finds happiness as a famous actress and wife of an ex-professional football player...
...their toenails and fingernails on the concrete to keep them short. Long letters printed on toilet paper in miniature handwriting are sneaked out by the hundreds. One inmate, John Thomas, swallowed a small cigarette lighter, intending to store it in his body for a couple of days. A metal detector picked it up and it was removed by a purgative...