Word: disturbance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first time, thanks to a Federal Communications Commission decision, passengers can receive incoming calls in flight -- routed through a central switchboard and wordlessly announced on the video screen so as not to disturb snoozers. More important, passengers will be able to transmit high-quality computer or telefax data from their seats. Travelers carrying laptop computers need simply plug into the standard AT&T RJ-11 connector in the armrest; laptopless passengers can use the system's built-in keypad to punch out a message, displayed on the video screen, and send...
...weeks ago I saw bullfight in Madrid. I didn't enjoy it very much. The killing of the bull did not disturb me, I just didn't see the point. The matador has all the advantages. But there are always those horns. After three bulls were killed that day, it finally happened to a matador. It didn't bother...
...Sometimes a few homeless people may come into the church and participate in the mass," Ford said. "Some talk to themselves and others participate peacefully. As long as they don't disturb the mass we're glad to have them come...
...Larry decides to turn the property over to his daughters -- Ginny, Rose and Caroline -- and their husbands. If any of this reminds you of King Lear, read on. At the beginning the Cooks seem invulnerable. Only Caroline's defection to Des Moines and marriage to a non- farmer slightly disturb their cohesiveness. But by the end, the father has gone mad, the farm has been lost, the family splintered...
While Scarlett errs on the side of political correctness, Gone With the Wind -- its minstrel-show dialogue intact -- still sells like buttermilk biscuits. The irony does not seem to disturb the Mitchell estate. Ripley, a seasoned professional, apparently understood what she was getting paid so well to do: write the book that was doomed from conception to be endlessly compared to the original. Scarlett is the South's new Lost Cause...