Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that's what matters. Indeed, we are on a bus-and- truck tour, a theatrical institution of small renown wherein cast, crew, orchestra, props and scenery pile into buses and trucks to barnstorm the country. This particular company is spending five months on the road doing mostly one-night stands. They wake up in time to make the bus, travel much of the day to a new theater, play their parts, then adjourn to a hotel till bus call the next morning. Thus pass strings of small cities: Harlingen, McAllen, Corpus Christi; Pueblo, Albuquerque, El Paso. Four months into...
...this point it is difficult to imagine a successful outcome for the Reagan Administration. The contras have yet to make an impressive military showing, have managed to pile up a dispiriting record of human rights abuses, and have earned a reputation for internal squabbling. Last week Congress found new cause for concern in reports that the CIA is providing the contras with detailed information on targets inside Nicaragua, including maps and blueprints of bridges, dams and other facilities built by U.S. agencies in the 1960s and 1970s. Legislators may find such involvement perilously close to the kind of CIA activities...
...Throw away the film and use the reels as Frisbees at the company picnic, or better yet, pile the reels on top of one another to make a few nifty side tables or stools...
DAVE, A suitemate, escapes this deprivation. Hulking and sweaty after soccer, he hunches over a row of glass vials, peering carefully at the bird bones clinking inside. Making a choice he pours a crisscross pile of bones into my hand. They're a creamy pebble grey, polished and crisp. Dave explains the significance of each tiny detail as I tick a fingernail across notches and etched grooves. My fingers and eyes draw me into a miniature world of texture--a jagged cave about a millimeter across signifies a breast bone; a ball-bearing sized nub, an ankle...
...working day begins. Guards push a pile of hempen fiber through the kormushka...