Word: fairground
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...armada of U.S. warplanes flew to Chile for an air show. As scores of Latin American officers and hundreds of civilians squinted into the sunny sky, an F-16 Falcon soared high up, then roared down in a kamikaze dive. A B-2 Stealth bomber flew over the Santiago fairground. A giant C-17 air cargo plane rumbled along the taxiway with a Chilean flag fluttering from a cockpit window. The State Department was furious with the stunts, but the air show accomplished exactly what the Pentagon had wanted. Within six months, Chile and Brazil had sent formal requests...
...Endangered Species Act. Otero has now formed a public lands committee to fight for its rights, and has hired a Los Angeles-based legal group, the Individual Rights Foundation, to press its claims in court. In Idaho's Lemhi County, 2,500 citizens turned out at a local fairground on a sub-zero day to protest a judge's injunction against commercial activity in the state's national forests because of endangered salmon in area waters. Among the leaders of the demonstration were several county officials. In January, the Lemhi County sheriff, Brett Barsalou, fearful of violence, threatened to keep...
...Hytner, who also mounted the grandiose Miss Saigon and the brooding The Madness of George III, and who draws on both styles here. From a leaf-strewn greensward on a hill to a steepled white church in the twilight distance, from the island dunes of a clambake to the fairground fantasy of the title, this production entrancingly conjures iconic places of bygone mill-town New England with expressionistic verve and cinematic speed of transition. The actors are adequate, save for irksome mugging by the chorus, and the singing is mostly fine, with opera diva Shirley Verrett gloriously belting the score...
...takes son Brad and teenage daughter Eleanor to Orioles baseball games, and they indulge his attraction to carnival rides. During a trip to Germany when he was deputy CIA director, Gates detoured to a local fairground, security detail in tow, and rode a roller coaster called the Triple Loop. A man of plain tastes and middlebrow origins, Gates likes to torment elitists at the CIA and the State Department, whom he derides as "guys with last names for first names." He tells corny jokes and Russian jokes. And he is relentlessly practical in a way that sometimes amuses his friends...