Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cars crowding the waiting ramp, visitors cross a barren patch of dirt to get to the bleachers. Pot-bellied silhouettes with gleaming headphones and walkie-talkies loom ominously from the dark hulk of a conning tower, floodlights throw stark shadows, and arching billows of steam and smoke uncoil overhead. It's only too easy to imagine being picked off from above by a sniper...
...lecture lasted more than two hours, and dragged toward the end when Koch displayed the Wallace Stevens poem "Anecdote of the Jar" on an overhead projector to demonstrate some keys to reading poetry. Alarmingly, he turned Stevens' very sophisticated poem into a cartoon,delighting in the story of "this magic little jarwhich conquers Tennessee," and, while allowingthat more nuanced readings of the poem werepossible, he seemed so strongly by temperament toresist such readings that he effectively arguedagainst them. The key to enjoying this poem, heheld, lay in the music of its sounds and thesilliness of its story, and there...
...relatives, others in neighboring Albania or Montenegro, but tens of thousands are still in the remote hills and forests of the embattled province, where they huddle in rough outdoor camps. During the past three months, 26,000 Yugoslav soldiers and security police, heavy guns roaring and combat helicopters whizzing overhead, have systematically pillaged more than 400 ethnic-Albanian villages to root out guerrilla strongholds...
...shovelnose guitarfish, named for obvious reasons. A grouper rows by, sculling with its pectorals. We take in the synchronized swimming of sardines and the pensive patrol of a leopard shark. She points out mackerel gleaming in the light. "I have been diving in shallows like these with the moon overhead," she says. Only half kidding, she adds, "I consider them all to be holy mackerel...
Similarly, a birthday party prank that included a busting balloon or exploding box would not go over well--professors who don't pause for helicopters flying low overhead will pause after a truck backfires and listen for sirens to make sure it wasn't something unexpected...