Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Zero Mostel, a virtuoso of the mind's merriment and the heart's grief, dominates this wistfully nostalgic musical about a small Jewish community in the Russia...
Rain of Stone. The time was 12:33 on a bright, warm Sunday afternoon. President Eduardo Frei was watching an air show outside Santiago when an invisible force seemed to seize and shake him. In Santiago's Hipodromo, 3,000 racing fans fled in panic as the grandstand roof heaved and cracked. Terrified swimmers in the open-air pool of the Hotel Carrera watched the water suddenly leap in foot-high waves. Three blocks away, cornices peeled off the Supreme Court and Congress buildings and rained down on the street...
...Roof Water. In Unityville, S. Dak., a twelve-family hamlet 42 miles northwest of Sioux Falls, Mrs. Alice Lundberg, 36, drives her white '59 Mercury eight miles from her farmhouse each morning to reach the white wooden schoolhouse by 7:45 a.m. Alone in the 28-ft. by 25-ft. classroom, she spends 80 minutes plotting the day's 36 separate topics for her 17 pupils, who come from seven nearby farm families. She teaches them on six grade levels, from first to eighth (she has no sixth and seventh graders). The 68-year-old school is surrounded...
...school has no running water, which explains one of the "Ten Commandments" hung on the wall: STOP AND THINK BEFORE YOU DRINK. (Another one says: CHOOSE A DATE WHO WOULD MAKE A GOOD MATE.) Children drink from a canister containing rainwater drained off the schoolhouse roof. Prominent on a bookshelf near the door is a roll of toilet tissue, from which the children unselfconsciously tear off a length as they leave for one of the two privies out back under a couple of evergreens...
...STAPLE SINGERS: AMEN! (Epic). The Staple family-Roebuck, his son Purvis, Daughters Mavis and Cleotha-is one of the liveliest gospel groups around, and they raise the roof with More Than a Hammer and a Nail and He's Got the Whole World in His Hands. But they are entertainers too (their title song, Amen, comes from the movie Lilies of the Field), and they incidentally demonstrate the strong kinship of gospel to rock 'n' roll...