Word: roam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while kids look for a new Aladdin or Home Alone, grownups will roam for romantic fare like the recent hits The Bodyguard and Indecent Proposal. That's why some industry swamis have picked Sleepless in Seattle, a sprightly romance, as the season's surprise hit. (Others chose Rookie of the Year and Free Willy.) And the only way that Jurassic Park and Last Action Hero could surprise Hollywood is if they don't hit the $100 million mark in their first four weeks of release...
...that tens of millions of people around the globe, including children as young as six, are working in bondage -- in dangerous and degrading conditions that often involve 18-hour workdays, beatings and sexual abuse. Many are the victims of opportunistic slave raiders, sometimes called "child catchers" and "cats," who roam impoverished or war-ravaged regions kidnapping, buying or luring helpless prospects into servitude...
...group of Medical School researchers has found an altered gene that may be responsible for Lou Gehrig's disease, suggesting that doctors should start looking for ways to attack dangerous free elements left to roam in the central nervous systems of patients with the fatal disorder...
Murray's gift is to make the appalling appealing. As the gonzo journalist in Where the Buffalo Roam, the blissed-out war veteran in The Razor's Edge, the sadistic TV executive in Scrooged or the crazed hypochondriacs in Little Shop of Horrors and What About Bob?, Murray always imparted a blithe, loosey-goosey air of getting through life on his terms, in his own high style. He has the natural actor's charm of making manners matter. He carries Groundhog Day with his uniquely frittery nonchalance and makes the movie a comic time warp anyone should be happy...
...ordinance which would require dogs at Fresh Pond to be leashed will be voted on later this month, she said. Fresh Pond is the only remaining public space in the city where dogs are allowed to roam unleashed...