Word: hydrant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exploits. The show peaks in Act II when the Inner City Breakers, a young street-styled trio, stage a friendly invasion onto the playground and perform some impressive rounds of break dancing. Although visibility could be better, the dancers bring the excitement and energy of a spraying city fire hydrant in the heat of August, a new a dramatic height, well-maintained despite a few disappointing lapses. "Enterprise", the song before the breaking segment is also a winner, sung deep and forcefully by Lois Johnson. Swados chose eclectic styles to compose in but she fared less well with punk than...
...that boy dancing on that horse," a veteran observer said at one stop. "I never thought he'd be up this morning. Last night he was arrested for parking his horse in the wrong place. He thought he tied it to a parking meter but it was a fire hydrant...
...construction of junk and wire stood by a fire hydrant, looking ominously out on Garden Street, thrown out by the inhabitants of the nearest house after it was abandoned by creator Matt Sargent...
...this was the work of a mischiefmaker, it caused no confusion among the readers. Considering the company he keeps, no wonder then that Kurri is scarcely noticed. "Playing on the same line with Wayne Gretzky," Oilers Coach Glen Sather denies saying a few years ago, "a fire hydrant could score 40 goals." Whoever authored the phrase, Kurri has worn out several Finnish-English dictionaries trying to decipher it. Most often the third party on the line is Jaroslav Pouzar, a Czechoslovak with his own dictionary. "I do most of the talking for all of us," Gretzky says...
...flipped over and the driver, Heacock, was pinned in the car by a fire hydrant which went through the windshield, the officer said...