Word: maines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before leaving, she told friends that her main apprehension about the voyage was the expense involved--the travel agency spent from $70,000 to $80,000 on each participant. Murden said that she felt guilty that so much money was being spent on her expedition, while so many homeless people still need help, Bovian said...
...with the apartment only weeks away from completion -- the main thing still missing is the park to be built on the roof -- Trump is pleased with his creation. "You will not believe this," he says as he leads the same reporter through the door. And it is true: even Judith Krantz would find it a little hard to believe. Even Liberace. If anyone would like a living room 80 ft. long, Trump now has one. With bronze-edged floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Central Park. And a 12-ft. waterfall set against a backdrop of translucent onyx...
...home, thanks to the distant, small and decrepit housing forced on us by the yuppification of Harvard Square, to which the University's hotel will of course contribute. Everyone is also aware that freshmen and Writing Center students do not want a structure for transients directly behind their main building. This is an especially unattractive idea after the Science Center rape...
This is one of Mississippi Burning's two main fictional conceits: that the FBI broke the case in part by locating not the fear and greed of a Klan informant, but the flinty, vindictive soul of Southern integrity. The other conceit is as low-road as the plot twist in a kung fu scuzzathon. The film imagines that the FBI imported a free-lance black operative to terrorize the town's mayor into revealing the murderers' names. Taken (like much else in the picture) from a report in William Bradford Huie's 1965 casebook, Three Lives for Mississippi, the scene...
...Jordan's delight in the sport is not the main reason he plays basketball. Competition drives Michael Jordan. Incessantly. Whether on the court or weaving his bright red Ferrari Testarossa in and out of Chicago's midday traffic or even putting golf balls on the Astroturf green in his basement, he is constantly testing himself and the opposition. Sometimes that burning competitive drive overrides Jordan's legendary coolness. Last year during a full-court scrimmage with teammates, Jordan stormed out of practice after angrily accusing coach Doug Collins of miscounting the score. Jordan finds motivation for the court each night...