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...Dwight's proposal and move in too. All goes horribly. Dwight is a secretive bully who is either at his companions' feet or at their throats. With young Tobias, it is no contest. The boy is given demeaning, pointless tasks, constantly berated and subjected to drunken, careering rides up hairpin mountain roads. He could, of course, tell his mother about this abuse and possibly dissuade her from marrying Dwight, but he does not: "I had come to feel that all of this was fated, that I was bound to accept as my home a place I did not feel...
Eliot Bridge: bridge just upstream from Harvard that is the site of the most notorious crashes at the Head. The twisting river has little mercy for coxswains unfamiliar with its hairpin turns and bridge arches...
...congealed or died. Unfortunately, most movies these days are made for the very short run; their futures are often determined by the opening weekend's box-office take. And the feeling is that nothing brings the kids in like rumors of big action along a plot line full of hairpin curves. A lot of movies with bliss-out potential are blitzed out by loud, dumb conclusions. Like Stakeout. Like...
...market has taken one heart-stopping roller-coaster ride after another, the last thing that investors needed was a new element of uncertainty. But many of them are worried that the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which President Reagan signed two weeks ago, will bring on fresh dips and hairpin turns. By lowering tax rates but eliminating many deductions and preferences, the legislation has already changed the investment climate and forced people to take a hard look at their stock portfolios...
...been nabbed out of the hands of FBI and CIA debriefers. If retrieving Zakharov meant disrupting the chance of a summit, well, too bad. But first things first. And in this case, as in so many others before, that meant another suspenseful bit of highway Dodg'em on the hairpin turns of Soviet-American relations...