Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Freaks and Geeks: Features "a smallish but hyper geek," "a friendly but slightly dangerous freak" and "a tall freak who dreams of stardom as a rock-'n'-roll drummer...
Anyone who thinks Christine Jean got rich by winning a Goldman Environmental Prize in 1992 should take a spin in her antiquated Renault. Most of the windows don't roll down; the passenger-side door opens only from the outside; and the paint is pocked with rust. But Jean doesn't care. All her $60,000 prize money went to Loire Vivante, the umbrella group she has headed since 1987. Its mission: blocking a gargantuan dam-building project that could have destroyed beautiful landscape and fragile ecosystems surrounding Europe's last wild river...
...unsecured sector. Such breaches of procedure might ordinarily lead to a stern warning or even dismissal, but the Cox Report?s allegations that the Clinton administration has been negligent with the nation?s nuclear security may yet see Lee facing a jury. After all, politics demands that heads must roll, and Lee?s is the only head identified with this scandal...
...loved the mid-roll-change option on Canon's Elph 2, which lets you swap partly used rolls in and out. I could save one roll for impromptu pics, then switch to a fresh one for parties or vacations. But the viewfinder was noticeably dull, actually discouraging me from taking shots. Minolta's silvery Vectis 2000 was the lightest of the trio and has a slick pull-open case. But it didn't seem so slick when I had to slap a piece of Scotch tape on the battery compartment to keep it from popping open. And the hatch marks...
...smartest bunch of people I've ever assembled": Sara, a beautiful former model turned fashion editor crippled in her search for a husband by daddy issues; Rex, a Wall Street jock recovering from an addiction to both coke and a blond-bombshell stripper; Dylan, a rock-'n'-roll sideman and jingle writer in the throes of alcoholism; Jack, a 59-year-old Broadway producer and former big spender suspended from producing for seven years, a plea bargain for embezzling from his shows; Peter, a wimpy accountant; and Lina, a mental-health administrator, poverty-stricken by a two-year divorce fight...