Word: lap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...directed the cabbie to take him to the bus station, where he waited in line to buy a ticket. Cost to taxpayers: $9. Upon boarding the bus at around midnight, he found all the seats were taken. A woman in the last row moved her child onto her lap to open a space between her and the toilet. Every time someone wanted to use the bathroom, he recalls, "I had to move my legs...
Perhaps, but will that deter further attacks? The case might never have been cracked without the help of Salem. FBI agents insist he did not drop into their lap: they were led to him by contacts carefully cultivated in the Muslim community. "There was some damn good police work involved," says one. But it seems unlikely that a similarly highly placed informant could be located in every incipient terrorist group. And, says former FBI director William Webster, there are "dozens and dozens" of similar groups around the country; their very lack of central organization or direction makes them difficult...
...picture fails on a common Hollywood fallacy: that because people lap up celebrity tattle and flock to movie-studio tours, they must be fascinated by the nuts and bolts of filmmaking. Last Action Hero (which is the ultimate studio tour as surely as Jurassic Park is the ultimate theme-park ride) starts out mostly nuts, and winds up mostly bolts. Or, rather, winds down. That's a problem with pastiche: it must be constantly jump-started with ingenuity, and even that ultimately pales. By the end, nothing matters...
...experience, she says, was "exhilarating." But it was also a reality check. "I thought the city would love me and jobs would fall in my lap," she says. "It taught me that you can't be unprepared...My biggest problem was that I didn't know enough, and I was way, way too naive...
There's more evidence that Saddam Hussein tried to kill George Bush during the former President's victory lap through Kuwait last month. An Iraqi being held in Kuwait told FBI investigators he led an assassination team at the behest of Baghdad...