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After the arrival of the red biplane in the ordered midst of the family, however, the stage takes on a surrealistic disarray. The uprooted plants in the greenhouse float eerily in mid-air, while the displaced iron lattice remains at its impossible, displaced angle, leaving a gaping hole in the barrier between the isolated little community and the outside world...
After years of moral and political pressure from around the world, Japan finally agreed that its commercial fishing fleets would stop using drift nets by the end of 1992. These enormous webworks float through the oceans, efficiently gathering up food fish but also killing dolphins and other marine mammals...
...Smith's vision hasn't been fulfilled fast enough to endure the recession and customer apathy. Because of its cash drain, GM has had to float $3.2 billion in premium-interest stocks and bonds (current rate: 9 1/8%), mainly to meet operational expenses. GM's outside directors have become so concerned in recent months that they have begun to meet privately, without the company's officers. They have reportedly put Stempel on notice that his own 16-month tenure, as well as those of GM president Lloyd Ruess and chief financial officer Robert O'Connell, are under close scrutiny. Says...
...album is full of major-league guitar crunching and mysterious, spacy chords. Evanescent melodies float seamlessly between songs of love, temptation, loose political parable and tight personal confession. The notes credit all songs to the band collectively -- lead singer Bono of late had taken a separate credit for lyrics -- and Achtung Baby does sound more cohesive than anything else U2 has done. Tunes like The Fly are restless, even reckless, with invention, and the band can write ravishing, slightly eerie romances like Mysterious Ways better than anyone else who can fill a stadium with cheering fans. There...
...earlier '80s, medicinal marijuana gained support from many doctors, but it was too late--the movement was inextricably associated with a lunatic fringe of burnt-out hippies making their last pathetic effort to salvage the '60s. In the Reagan-Bush years, that kind of coalition just doesn't float...