Word: porch
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...Ozzie and Harriet's home is less like our natural habitat than, say, the more diffuse social integration of Andy Griffith's Mayberry. Andy's son Opie is motherless, but he has a dutiful great-aunt to watch over him--and, anyway, can barely sit on the front porch without seeing a family friend...
...front porch he encounters Francesca Johnson (Streep), who came to Iowa from italy after World War II as a war bride...
...spring of 1980, recalls his wife, and they were sitting on a porch swing with their young daughter. "He came back one weekend and was troubled," she says. "It was visible-I could see it in his face that there was something wrong." An old friend from rotc had approached him, he told her, enthusing about "a great new job offer" that he had assumed Koernke knew of too. "Basically what it was," she says, "was that they were to secure an 'open-air camp,' a facility for men, women and children. And [Mark] asked, 'Well, what country is this...
Standing on the porch ofFranklin Delano Roosevelt's "Little White House" retreat in Georgia on the 50th anniversary of FDR's death, President Clinton urged Americans to rememberhis legacy. Noting that many ofFDR's social and economic programsare on the congressional chopping block, Clinton reminded his audience of Roosevelt's focus on people and, in particular, education, saying that he will not support any tax cut which does not protect education...
...previously recorded material. Already own the original? Now buy the unplugged version. "From an artistic standpoint, it's a total joke," says Albini. "You take bands that are fundamentally electric-rock bands and put acoustic guitars in their hands and make them do a pantomime of a front-porch performance. It's not an authentic reading of that music at all. It's like watching a water ballet crossed with an N.F.L. football game...