Word: nearest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when the nation's attention is focused on the controllers. Every other major union in the country--especially the AFL-CIO, which represents so many public sector employees--should back PATCO, and with more than words. If need be, a general walkout should be called, beginning with the unions nearest in occupation to the controllers--the pilots, the ticket clerks, the porters. And, if necessary, the rest of organized labor should follow...
Choreographer Johanna Boyce needed an Olympic-size pool to stage, or float, her commissioned piece Waterbodies. Five harps were moved to the pool deck at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, the nearest suitable pool, to play Jack Eric Williams' score. A backdrop screen showed footage of underwater escapades while Vermont-raised Boyce and her nine mostly nonprofessional performers splashed, sang, burbled, slithered and dived de deux. Far from synchronized swimming, Waterbodies explored movement with the playful exuberance of a midnight swim...
...depth to the world he must protect. Things used to be so simple; after a long day of reporting for the Daily Planet. Clark Kent would find out that his shapely cohort had managed to get herself stuck in a shark tank in Saudi Arabia. After checking into the nearest phone booth, he would emerge, leotards and all, leap tall buildings and so forth, to arrive at the scene of the crime just in time to save poor Lois. There would always be a moment of sexual tension and a brief query as to where the heck Clark goes everytime...
...northern Maine and Southern Florida and everywhere in between, a flat-out strip between nothing. Nothing except South of the Border. I took the appropriate exit, drove slowly through the center of the "attraction" and kept on going down an old back road, heading toward the nearest town and ignoring the huge placard imploring me in the name of Pedro to reverse my course...
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau at Colby College in Waterville, Me.: "You live in a deeply cynical world where generosity is in short supply, a world where taking a stand has come to mean finding the nearest trap door for escape...