Word: leak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beds are hammocks tied to posts in a shed with a thatch-and-tarpaulin roof. "If you need to take a leak during the night, watch out for snakes," Mittermeier tells me. "I'll do that," I say, and drink nothing before bedtime...
SONNY BONO Widow tells tales on him after he's gone. She's a politician. She's learned to leak...
...privileged as Parrish and his family, at least as they are presented in Meet Joe Black, know about life? Mostly they are observed dressed to the nines, eating delicately prepared viands and enjoying life in either a Manhattan penthouse, where one prays the swimming pool does not spring a leak and ruin the library's first editions, or a riverside mansion, where the helicopter pad blends nicely into the landscape. There is no rage, pain or panic in any of these venues, and no wild laughter either. There are only the muttered discontents of the well favored...
...show called "Pleasantville," reminiscent of Ozzie and Harriet. Once there, the brother and sister try to play along with the "Honey, I'm home!" fakeness of the town, but they can't withhold all of their real world sensibilities. As the ideas they bring with them (art, sex, danger) leak into the town, color starts appearing on roses, on houses and eventually on people. Not knowing what will happen the next day and learning to live with real human emotions are what turn the denizens of Pleasantville into genuine human beings. It's not such an easy moral, though...
Sylviana Silva, who was serving lunch on Saturday when the pipes burst, said the leak started at five minutes to two on Saturday and that "by two o'clock we had to close the [serving area] door" because of the water...