Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kyoko. Ono once brought the baby onstage during a concert as "an uncontrollable instrument." Eventually, Cox and Kyoko went to Japan, and Ono to England. Her artworks, or happenings, began to show a sense of humor that was both self-mocking and affirmative, and when John Lennon climbed a ladder to look through a telescope at that London gallery, what he saw was no distant landscape but a simple...
...attack that left four injured in the heart of Waikiki. More common are purse snatchings, muggings and car lootings. Much of the violence has been attributed to the descendants of the islands' original Polynesian inhabitants, an underemployed and poorly educated class. Kept at the bottom of the economic ladder by waves of more prosperous American and Japanese immigrants, many members of this group feel exploited and resentful...
...pair of sisters trying to earn money for their family home--avoid the traditional deadly sins so they can practice far worse ones more efficiently. One sister (both are named Anna) serves as guardian spirit to her suffering sibling: as they travel from city to city, climbing a ladder of fortune, the worldly temptations of Anna 2 are warded off one by her moralizing sister...
More than 100 people waited in the bitter cold for a half hour until fire officials had inspected the building. One engine and one ladder company responded to the alarm...
...There were times I thought I couldn't do it," she recalls. "A lot of it was body mechanics--a big man can pull up a ladder with his arms. While I had to use my whole upper body. I started out imitating their way and had no luck...