Word: driveways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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INDEPENDENT COUNSEL: Know when to fold. That extraordinary driveway press encounter, in which you lapsed into Spanish and claimed Dragnet's Jack Webb as your hero, did not inspire confidence. Right after that, your ally Senator Arlen Specter hinted that you might want to spare Republicans a long national nightmare unless you have an open-and-shut case. But your crusade is all the chattering classes have left. Better that you be the first I.C. to prosecute a cover-up of a sin, not a crime, than that we return to covering IMF funding and NATO expansion...
...wife Leslie, a lawyer, who last October bought a beautiful two-story house north of San Francisco in Mill Valley, up a road that wound through 100-ft. redwoods and past a splashing stream. Then the winter rains started. Toward the end of January, the couple's driveway had started to heave. A week later, the house began to torque and twist so that windows cracked and doors hung askew. "You'd better get out," city inspectors advised. Within two hours, the Ragsdales and two dozen friends started filing in and out of the house like ants, loading a truck...
...never forget in my life the noise I heard," says Gary Lemonoff, a house painter who lives near Laguna Beach, Calif. "There was a roar, my trailer started shaking, and rocks and mud and boulders and tree limbs went rolling across my driveway." When the roar stopped, in the blackness of the night Lemonoff could hear his neighbors screaming. For a time, it seemed that all had survived, including a 9-month-old baby someone miraculously plucked from the mud. But as the sun rose, Lemonoff spotted a foot and forearm protruding from a pile of mud and rubble just...
...make up for it, McEwan used to reenact "MacGyver" episodes. Vanessa P. Bertozzi '00 remembers her deprived childhood as a time of necessary duplicity. "My older sister, older brother and I had to sneak TV when our parents went out. We'd listen for the car coming up the driveway and then run up and turn it off. Under supervision, we were only allowed to watch nature programs and operas," Bertozzi says. Apparently Don Giovanni can't sustain the interest of American children...
...first indulged in the habit about eight years ago, just a junior high school kid intrigued by the patterns of black and white, different everyday, which landed on my Long Island driveway. A real challenge it was to fill in the blanks, especially when I knew little Shakespeare and nothing of Ancient Greece. Like many fellow suburban teenagers, I began to take the train (Long Island Rail Road, LIRR) to the city (New York) on a routine basis for both leisure and work...