Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...star has people. He does not uncap a beer or roll his own joint or bother to seduce. His followers are driven by desperate hunger. In the novel's best scene, one of its last, Esther has been terribly hurt in a car crash. Luke appears and orders an ambulance, and they rush into Manhattan toward a hospital. But someone, probably the ambulance driver, has phoned a radio station. As the news gets out, cars fall in behind the ambulance, then ahead. Progress slows, then stops. Luke steps out, climbs on the ambulance, shouts for a clear path. "One song...
...pettiness of the accusations speaks for itself. Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ads provoke particular ridicule, and while the idea is indeed amusing, they pay his rent. The scorn reminds me of how the Russian upper crust once castigated Peter the Great for being unafraid to roll up his sleeves and get his hands dirty. Amazingly, in our huge, multinational country, where the residents of St. Petersburg speak with a different accent from those of Moscow, Gorbachev's southern speech is held against...
Finally, the Police motorcycles turn on their sirens and roll around the corner of Boylston onto Tremont. They are followed by a marching band of 20 bagpipers, a mounted detachment of the Boston Police, and a small contingent of Greek-American veterans. Several floats from Greek Orthodox churches, clubs and schools drift past while their costumed riders wave and smile. A military jet flies low overhead, and a single propeller plane pulls an enormous Greek flag through...
...funding was approved by a unanimous roll-call vote and many councillors said they hoped the upcoming budget would include future funding so the city's youth centers could hire more part-time workers and full-time directors. Preliminary steps are being taken for construction of a new youth center--the city's fourth in West Cambridge...
According to a well-informed account, Chubais made sure his enemy Kulikov went out the door with him. The Internal Affairs Minister, who longed to roll back the privatization Chubais has engineered, had leaked information so damaging to some of Chubais' deputies that they had to resign. Chubais was determined to get him for that, and the oligarchs were perfectly happy to see Kulikov go. He was no respecter of private property. And he seemed eager to be a political kingmaker in 2000, using his ministry troops and snoops to back Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, another foe of the free...