Word: roof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FARMINGTON. Mo.--A fire killed 25 residents of the Straughan Wayside Inn early yesterday morning, when the roof of the boarding house collapsed on their beds...
...notion of art as roof gutter is nicely suited to Wain's thoughtful treatment of two middle-aged men joyfully making fools of themselves over younger women. In less knowing hands, The Pardoner's Tale might have been only a clever sex reversal on the stock English romance about a maiden schoolteacher's brief tryst in Italy. But instead of sentimentality, Wain offers genuine sentiments. Instead of passion enveloping quivering loins in petals of fire, there is a steady sensuous glow that warms the brain...
Recent efforts to reorganize foreign aid have fared much BY GEOFFREY MOSS worse than attempts to increase appropriations for it. Senator Hubert Humphrey's last legislative initiative was the International Development Cooperation Act, which would have assembled all foreign aid programs, for the first time, under one roof and a single planning command. The bill died last year as a result of congressional inaction that was abetted by both of the major Administration departments that would have lost power. The State Department would have forfeited control of bilateral pro grams handled by AID, and the Treasury Department would have...
...even more painfully aware of the repetitious nature of the show, its lack of directionality. Significantly, the largest hand of applause was for a blues number sung without frills in the second act, and yet the biggest laugh was reserved for when another special effect lowered from the roof stuck and had to be raised and lowered three times during black-outs. It was not so much the lack of talent of the singers which was upsetting, but the lack of 'razamataz', the lack of style and charisma to put it across. Furthermore, this lack continually emphasized the lack...
...ceremonial highlight of the second day of the visit was the 137-mile, four-hour train ride from the capital to Alexandria, through Sadat's home district in the heart of the verdant Nile delta. "This is my Georgia," exclaimed the Egyptian leader, pointing to the landscape of thatched-roof mud houses and farmers tilling with ox-drawn wooden plows. The antique diesel locomotive, decorated with flowers and palms, was greeted along the way by the shrill sound of reed instruments and the rhythmic clapping of hands. Dangling from trees and lampposts, clustered on roofs and balconies, and crowding close...