Word: porches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carvel, where MGM set its 15 popular Hardy-family films between 1937 and 1947, knew no crime or addiction. The lawns in front of those two-story white houses were as smooth as an Emerald City carpet, and Dad's morning newspaper always landed smartly on the front porch. When girls gossiped about "the pill," they were referring to an % unpopular guy at the far end of the study hall. If Go-Getting Teenager Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) got "in trouble" with a debutante or chorus girl, it wouldn't be that kind of trouble--just the yelp of puppy...
...downward-sloping diagram on the financial page, an abstract reminder of the mysterious world of desert oil wells, filthy-rich Arabs and the irritating antics of OPEC. But suddenly oil's new situation is hitting home with the wallop of a 42-gal. oil barrel dropped on the front porch. Last week consumers, businessmen and traders around the world watched in awe as the price of crude dipped below $10 per bbl. for the first time in almost a decade. Oil, which as recently as January was selling for $26 per bbl., was on a breathtaking--and dangerous--ride down...
...switched on their car headlights as a tribute. In Los Angeles, the Olympic torch atop the Memorial Coliseum was lighted anew in honor of the space victims. Governor James Thompson of Illinois, before leaving on a trip to Japan, had asked citizens of his state to turn on their porch lights at night during Challenger's mission to express support for the teacher-in-space project. After the tragedy, he telephoned a request that they keep them on Wednesday night as memorials to the fallen heroes. Many other communities paid comparable tributes. The floodlights that normally bathe New York City...
...home into an exercise room, installing two stationary bikes, a rowing machine, a cross-country skiing machine, a Nautilus for the Home abdominal builder and a practice putting green. Jim Kramer, 25, a Miami accountant, for $1,500 purchased several machines, which he placed on his screened-in porch. "If I want to work out at 3 in the afternoon or 3 in the morning, I can do it," he says. "And I don't have to wait for a machine. And I don't have to lie down in somebody else's sweat." Even health-club dropouts without...
...lurching toward its landfall in the Carolinas, New York City was braced for what many meteorologists feared might be the worst storm of the century. The Eastern seaboard had evacuated its islands and lowlands, taped its windows, stocked up on batteries, candles and canned soup, brought in the porch furniture, stuck the garbage cans away and more or less ducked out of sight. By Friday morning it seemed that the Atlantic Coast of the U.S. had simply gone out of business. In Manhattan, the bosses of the Wall Street stock exchanges and most banks decided to close house, in Atlantic...