Word: docked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mack says he cruised in his cab for fares coming out of the gay bars on Greenwich Village's dock strip at 3 a.m., ferried young professionals to buy heroin in the West Village's Alphabet City and once spent five hours inching through a flood with five malodorous tourists to Kennedy Airport...
Upscale storage facilities like Summerfields usually have individual locks and seven-days access with computer passwords. Summerfields even has a loading dock complete with truck rentals and on-site packaging expertise...
...freshman crew team last Monday, causing the first four feet of the bow to go under the other boat and snap off. After the collision one of the men in the bow yelled, "We're screwed! Take off your shoes!" By backwatering to a nearby landing dock the team managed to avoid sinking, but the damage may be irreparable...
...additions to the Special Edition, such as the scene in the landing dock with Jabba the Hutt and the new collection of animals and creatures in Mos Eisley, are a little out of place because of their polished look, but they do add to the movie. For those "Star Wars" purists, such changes hardly corrupt the original when one considers that Lucas wanted these effects in the first place. My only gripe with the $10 million overhaul is with the new THX digitized sound, which raises every sound to the same fevered pitch, from the lowest whisper to the loudest...
During those first years, AIDS was unspeakable. Media coverage was nonexistent, and denial ruled. The founding members of G.M.H.C. tried to hand out flyers regarding the new disease on the dock at Fire Island, and no one would take them. Rumors abounded--that the virus was spread through poppers, that it was deliberate government genocide, that it was carried in swine flu; I remember thinking that the ultimate gay plague would be contracted over the phone. Soon, however, compassion and terror galvanized the gay community. Anxious mobs attended Larry Kramer's landmark AIDS drama, The Normal Heart, in which medical...