Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thanks for the memories, dear reader. It's been a fun ride...
...Jones industrial average continued its rollercoaster ride into the new year Wednesday, losing 21.32 points after gaining 44.44 points Tuesday. The Dow closed at 5,066.90. The New York Stock Exchange composite index also fell, 0.54 to close at 325.29. On the Big Board, advancers led decliners 1,231 to 1,127, with 759 unchanged. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 1.35 to end the day at 997.22. The Standard & Poor's 500 stocks lost 2.06 to close at 606.38. The American Stock Exchange market value index gained 1.30 to close at 533.21. In London, gold closed...
...actually as bad as they promised. What began Sunday amid forecasters' dire warnings quickly overwhelmed the country from the Atlantic coast to western Kentucky, killing 86 people, piling drifts as high as 20 feet at New York airports and icing highways in an ill-prepared Atlanta. The ride is not quite over. An aftershock of sorts dusted Washington with more snow Tuesday as a weaker storm headed for New England. And by Friday, another large storm will form along the southern coast that is expected to provide a memorable echo of Sunday's deluge. "One computer model, the one that...
After that, Dino coasted. He became a Southerner on record, with countrified hits like Everybody Loves Somebody and Houston, and a Westerner onscreen--he loved to sit on a horse and ride to Nogales, or nowhere. Perhaps nowhere was his chosen destination. To Nick Tosches, his biographer, Martin was a nihilist hero. Instead of seeing mankind surrounded by a void, Tosches argued, Dino found the void within himself, and called it home...
...neglects the why of characterization. Jumanji wastes the gifts of two terrific comic actors, Robin Williams and David Alan Grier, and some other good people (Kirsten Dunst, Bonnie Hunt). Like the viewer, everyone on-screen pretty much sits back, gets strapped in and takes a bumpy techno-thrill ride through a haunted house...