Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reckon with in Northern Ireland has brought him a long way from the rough streets of Belfast, where he began his activist career. Only two days before the attacks, he was rambling through the streets of west Belfast in a cold drizzle. He paused in front of a rubble heap, which for him was a monument to a heroic political struggle, not just the remnants of a high-rise public housing project. "These new houses are an improvement," he said, pointing to the neat brick homes surrounding the demolition site. His voice was mellow as he recounted his long battle...
Because when you return, your clothing is no longer tumbling merrily in the washing machine where you left it. It is sitting in a damp, dejected heap on the decidedly unsanitary floor...
...replacement was, to say the least, nervous about the task that lay before him. Before he collapsed in a heap of tears (fear not, gentle readers, for he is being consoled by his trustworthy compatriots even as your eyes travel across this page) our new Under Glass correspondent trekked patiently from department to department, edifice to edifice, seeking answers to the questions that burned fiercest in his chest. Here are some of the responses...
LYDIA COLON'S MOST PRESSING POLITIcal concern is garbage. A 5-ft. heap of it, piled outside an abandoned row house next door to her home in North Philadelphia, has broken through her chain-link fence. "I would vote 100 times, as long as they come and clean it up," says Colon, a 54-year-old native of Puerto Rico. That may be necessary, since she got no results from the two times she voted in last fall's election...
Meanwhile, next week Marks will be suing Stinson in federal court to overthrow the election results. In the meantime, while Republicans refuse to call him senator, Stinson continues to vote. As for Colon, she declares, "I'll never vote again." And the trash heap next to her backyard continues to grow...