Word: pits
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SPARKY, A PIT BULLTERRIER WITH A sweet disposition, gets run over by a car, and Victor Frankenstein (Barret Oliver), his 10-year-old master, determines to revive him using a microwave and a toaster. FRANKENWEENIE sounds like pure Tim Burton, and it is. The 27-min. Disney comedy, made in 1984 and now released as a home video, marked the debut of the director of the Batman blockbusters. This ripe tale has intimations of Burton's Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands: the undead and a wild child sundered in suburbia. But Burton's Batmanic surrealism is plenty evident here...
...Despite her reservations, Langdon finally relented. Twain triumphantly wrote to his family, "She said she never could or would love me -- but she set herself the task of making a Christian of me. I said she would succeed, but that in the meantime she would unwittingly dig a matrimonial pit & end by tumbling into it -- & lo! the prophecy is fulfilled." Langdon was wed to Twain for the remaining 34 years of her life...
...workers come across a sensitive area like a foundation or a single trash pit, Stubbs can ask them to stop so he can excavate the areas more carefully...
...bitterly discontented. New violence already has broken out in Tibet, according to reports reaching London. In Europe there are feelings of repression and aspirations toward autonomy, if not independence, among Hungarians in Romania, Turks in Bulgaria and Poles in Lithuania, among others. In Afghanistan civil war could yet pit southern Pashtun against northern Uzbek and Tajik in a conflict that could spill over into neighboring Pakistan and the formerly Soviet republics of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan...
...feet away from the bustling bakery is the Square's main gathering place for disaffected youth, The Pit, located next to the main T entrance. Some of the leather-clad denizens of The Pit will scowl at you as you walk by. But don't worry about that guy sporting the jacket with "I Kill Summer School Scum!" emblazoned on the back. He probably doesn't mean...