Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caucus is the opportunity for members of a party to get together and work out their differences so as not to contradict each other on the floor. When causes were open to the press the public was able at least to learn what different opinions existed and how the state would potentially be run. Now even this glimpse will be denied...
...Manhattan gunmen apparently broke into the Wells Fargo building through the wall of an adjacent building, using sledgehammers and other tools to create a 35-in.-high opening. There were no guards on the premises, and they waited in the Wells Fargo executive offices on the second floor. Though the depot has an elaborate warning system, the robbers set off no alarms. Police investigators suspect that the thieves probably had inside information. The FBI says there are "concrete leads." Asked why the thieves left so much cash in the vault, Nicastro replied, "Maybe they got tired of lifting...
...unbelievable to sit there and see that film of not only the dead and the ranks of dead, but the condition of the living," the President said. "I remember one shot--I can never forget. There was a building that looked like a warehouse. The floor was entirely carpeted with bodies. And in that film, while we were looking at that, out in the middle of all those bodies, suddenly, slowly one body moved and raised up, a man on his elbow, and tried with his other hand to gesture. He was alone, alive with the dead...
...Stranglers, to their credit, won't give in to the requisite dance-floor demands of public success; even the grandes artistes Talking Heads couldn't reach the really big time--permanent Top--40 success--until they meshed funk rhythm with their native melodies...
Depeche Mode, whether they realize it or not, are astride the twilight zone of sentiment, sentimentality, and naked-nipple camp. With a synthesizer beat that commands the dance floor, tender melodies that call for industrial-sized Dramamine, and pretty-boy vocals that would do credit to the Krokodiloes. Depeche Mode somehow manages to subvert the teen-age romantic schlock slot they ought to fit so well...