Word: heaps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...times a day. Todd, thought dead after a confrontation with the biggest and meanest of the new breed (Cain 607, played by Jason Scott Lee), is sent to a waste disposal planet where he regains consciousness and is befriended by a group of settlers stranded on the intergalactic trash heap...
...handful of ridiculously-foppish officers) and cheer when Todd lands a punch. Despite the gory violence, the predictable plot and obvious themes in the film are, in some ways, more painful experiences for the audience. A respectable performance by one actor and the creation of a stunningly vast garbage heap constitute the highlights in a film that cannot last very long in theaters where only the best films survive...
...that's right--dirt, enough to fill Foxboro Stadium to the rim 13 times. Some of it is being used to cap the various dumps around Boston, including one in Boston Harbor on Spectacle Island (where a park will be built on top of the new man-made dirt heap). The amount of dredged-up earth, if put in dump trucks, would stretch all the way to Brazil. The concrete used could make a sidewalk to San Francisco and back three times...
Miller also aggravated an existing ailment. At73:42, she chased a ball into the Princeton box,where Rettig secured possession. As Miller avoidedthe Princeton keeper, Rettig threw her body atMiller, and the two went down in a heap...
...expert help to veteran Washington writer and NPR contributor Rudy Maxa, who flew to Los Angeles last Friday to select the best stories and recruit reporters to pursue them. Maxa says he was lured out of semiscandal retirement by the prospect that some of those discarded on the ash heap of history might emerge to name names. Maxa's claim to fame is exposing former Congressman Wayne Hays and his "assistant" Elizabeth Ray ("I can't type...I can't even answer the phone"), and Paula Parkinson, who didn't play golf but teed up on an outing to Florida...