Word: roof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ballet Miss Julie, in which a noblewoman (danced by Panov's wife Galina) seduces a servant and then, with his help, kills herself. The next morning, police found Helen Hagnes. She had been stripped naked, bound and gagged, and hurled 70 ft. from the Met's roof to her death in an air shaft...
...youth any protection against the searing sun. Randy Bossing, 26, was working last week on his roof in Missouri. He took frequent breaks to douse himself with water from a garden hose but soon began complaining that he felt faint. Then he slumped over dead, another victim of the heat...
...Ryan's hate back to his childhood, when his father lost his shirt and his family lost their New Jersey manse. Instead of a bank vice-president, he became an elevator operator, and Tommy still dreams of the old days, when the rats would murder pigeons on the roof above his bed. No happy Miracle-on-34th-Street memories of his city childhood; instead, the central figure is one Dr. Frankfurt, the local dentist. "Frankfurt would just ram the ether mask over your puss and when you woke up there was enough metal in your mouth...
...could take a four-day evasive-driving course in Summit Point, W. Va., that teaches high-speed handling and bootleg turns to escape terrorist blockades. The head of an East Coast steel firm spent $150,000 this spring to protect his house with electronic sensors on doors and windows, roof and carpet vibrator detectors and closed-circuit TV cameras...
...depth or the satiric edge of the author's seriocomedies, The Blood of the Lamb and Reuben, Reuben. In Decency, Conn., a favorite De Vries setting, the commuters and their wives clown around on the wall-to-wall carpeting but hear the steady drumming of eternity on the roof. In Pocock pipes of Pan playing tunes of innocence drown out the ravings of a street-corner Jeremiah. With sin and guilt suspended, the book lacks the touch of tragic relief that has made De Vries a top banana of the Calvinist comedy hour...