Word: jam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Avenue extravaganzas. In one 60-second spot, which symbolizes the problems of inventory control in a small business, the Tramp stands at the intersection of two assembly lines in a bakery. He comes a cropper when the fast-moving line spews cakes onto the floor after he tries to jam a giant-size one into an economy-size box. Taping the sequence required 30 takes-and 150 layer cakes...
...commercial street of Calle Providencia, middle-class women darkened their apartments and stood on their balconies at 8 p.m. to stage a one-hour cacerolazo, a rhythmic thumping of pots and pans. On the street below, motorists blew their horns and demonstrators hurled orange crates into a gigantic traffic jam that extended for some 20 blocks. The police, outnumbered, retaliated with tear gas, water cannons and dogs...
Just three days after a bomb blast killed 18 people on a crowded sidewalk in Pretoria, a dozen South African jet fighters were skimming low over Maputo, capital of neighboring Mozambique. After loosing a barrage of rocket, cannon and machine-gun fire at private residences and a jam factory in a suburb of the port city, the Impala fighters peeled off westward and headed home...
...entrance, pushing a gouty man's wheel chair. Nothing very funny about that. But as the days wear on, that single chair be comes half a dozen of them, and Chaplin turns himself into a bellboy functioning as a policeman trying to straighten out the splendidly lunatic traffic jam they inevitably create. He then abandons this marvelous scene entirely to turn himself into a spiflicated patient entangling him self in a revolving door, a sequence that turns out to be even more brilliantly timed. Unknown Chaplin offers dozens of examples of this kind of comic grace under self-generated...
...going to go around looking for a home forever." In Qatar alone, the tide of oil could close down two desalination plants that now produce 37 million gal. of fresh water daily, most of the supply for the population of 250,000. Even small amounts of oil would jam the plants' delicate machinery...