Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington a special-action group of top officials was meeting almost daily, sometimes with a pipe-puffing President Gerald Ford, to hear the latest news--uniformly bad. On April 17 the Senate Armed Services Committee, reflecting an overwhelming American desire to be done with Vietnam, rejected an Administration request for $722 million in emergency aid to the Saigon regime. "Those bastards!" exclaimed the usually calm Ford. Though nobody believed the aid would turn the tide, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and others had hoped it might enable South Vietnam to put up enough of a last-ditch fight to persuade...
...play the role of God, directing who will live and who will die. His own family history is juxtaposed with her story, according us unexpected insight. Kieslowski focusses on small images: the woman methodically snapping leaves off of a plant, her husband, in the hospital, fixating on a dripping pipe. The images wordlessly reflect the emotional states of the characters...
...characters and their compatriot Westphalians all wear white. They proceed through a whirlwind tour of countries and climes whose inhabitants run the gamut of color and texture. The lively contrast amply compensates for deficiencies in the score. VerHage has turned a costumer's nightmare into an audience member's pipe dream...
...When you turn the hot water on now, absolutely nothing comes out," said one Currier resident. "It sounds like the pipe is gagging...
...someone who always thought of pipe cleaners as plumbing utensils, I clearly don't spend much time at tobacco shops. I was lured into Leavitt and Pierce, a tobacco shop on Mass Ave., by its amazing marbles and tin cars. Upon close inspection the store offers more than kitsch and tobacco. Up a small catwalk and past a culturally-sensitive Native American cigar seller statue are five wooden tables with inlaid chess boards...