Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson roared back to life in the fifth game, with a crucial kill by Denniston giving them a 6-3 lead. Harvard extended its lead to 10-4 due to defensive mistakes by the Wildcats, but UNH soon rediscovered its fountain of youth. The Wildcats scored seven consecutive points until a net violation by UNH tied the game at 11. The game exchanged leads several times, until a kill by Walker gave the Wildcats a 15-14 lead, and they capitalized on their game-point opportunity by winning the fifth game...
...years ago, he has funneled money south. He has lavished three houses on his mother, bought businesses for his sisters, sent computers to schools, donated ambulances to hospitals, handed out so many Christmas gifts he's known as "Sammy Claus," built the mall in his hometown and erected a fountain where all the change that is thrown into it goes to the local shoeshine boys. In front of the mall, of course, is a statue of himself...
Next to the Library Tower is a curving stairwell, flanked by plants and shops and split down the center by a small, raised stream of water flowing over rounded rocks. The path leads the eye upward, where finally, around a bend, a small pool and fountain rest serenely. Across the street, the steps to the library itself are decorated in words in many languages and split by a series of pools and sculptures. There are open courtyards, a sunken mall and beautiful glassy buildings that reflect light down to the street...
...characters are 40 years old, and the studio will ask if they can be in their early 20s instead." The moguls also think of how the Amy Heckerling comedy Clueless transformed Jane Austen's Emma into a modern-teen hit, and they dip some literary favorite into the fountain of youthpix. The fall film Ten Things I Hate About You, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt of 3rd Rock from the Sun, is "The Taming of the Shrew in high school." Next year's Cruel Inventions, with Gellar and Dawson's Joshua Jackson, was pitched as "Dangerous Liaisons in high school." Then...
...last winter I went to the Chamber of Commerce banquet and explained that I had been misunderstood. It all depended on how many fountains there were, I said. I didn't want to dismantle a fountain if we had only one more fountain than Rome. I didn't want to lose the edge. I didn't want to arrive in Rome some day and find a sign saying, "Piu fontane di Kansas City...