Word: faucet
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...laughing faucet...
...element has recently been injected into this depressing scene: hope that things can be better. For the first time in El Bahu's history, there is a water faucet in the village and the people have clean water to drink instead of the silt-heavy Nile. Only a few hundred yards away, the people can see power lines bringing electricity generated by the Aswan High Dam 500 miles to the south. Within a year they too will have light for their houses. As a result, there is a new kind of farmer in the Nile delta, who buys...
...call the action heavy-handed is an understatement. A knight in the forest bars the way for King Arthur and refuses to admit he is defeated even after Arthur slashes his arm off (blood spurts as if from a faucet); Arthur then chops his other arm off, and then each of his legs, before moving on. There's really nothing funny about it. The keynote of the humor is gore. Even in what may be the funniest moment of the film, when a small white rabbit guarding a cave catapults into the air and saws off a knight's head...
...curriculum is unpretentious but practical. It includes courses on such subjects as how to fix a faucet, prepare a tax return or get a better job. The teachers seem eminently well qualified. Heidi Fiske, vice president of Institutional Investors Systems, presides over a course entitled "How to Leverage Your Talents into Working for Yourself or Starting Your Own Small Business"; Lynn Caine, who wrote the best-selling autobiographical Widow, teaches "The Widow." All this and more is available at Womanschool, a newly opened institution designed to teach women how to cope in a male-dominated society...
Peace will turn off the faucet of American aid and permit peasants to return to the countryside, where the NLF will be able to mobilize them into its democratically carried out land reform program. Thieu realizes that peace will aid the NLF, so he continues...