Word: roof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never "need no training up," so accustomed are they to one another's rhythms. "Say it loud and draw a crowd!" Bud Spires hollered as Jack Owens wailed, "You're tryin' to quit me now,/ But you don't know how." It began raining, and fat drops played the roof while the two friends played on: "Give me yoh money, baby gal,/ Let me use it for myself." Whiskey pints circled round and round and round the porch. In this fashion, the afternoon slid away, as did most necessary motor skills...
...been taking helicopter-flying lessons. In reality she was Nadine Vaujour, 34, wife of one of France's most carefully guarded prisoners, and she had learned her lessons well. At 10:45 last Monday morning, Nadine flew a rented chopper to Paris' Sante prison, dropped a rope onto the roof and picked up her husband Michel, 35, who still had 28 years to serve for attempted murder and armed robbery. In the confusion, another inmate was left behind. Minutes later, the helicopter landed in a nearby soccer field, where the couple jumped into a car and disappeared...
Reactors No. 1 and No. 2, shut down immediately after the accident, are in a separate building from No. 4. Soviet media accounts said the roof of the No. 3 reactor was damaged by fire, but that the third reactor itself was intact...
Fast-food architecture is coming full circle too. Two years ago, outside Chicago, the deconstructionist New York firm SITE built a sublime McDonald's. The basic kit of pieces was standard, but SITE made the whole restaurant seem to hover: brick walls are cantilevered up off the ground, the roof floats above the walls. Decadent, maybe, but delightful too. In heartland suburbia, the highest of high camp has thus been achieved. When kitsch icons like McDonald's come with their own built-in ironic critique, an epoch must...
...doused himself with kerosene and paint thinner. Shouting "Out with U.S. imperialism!" and "Out with police!" Lee Tong Soo, 22, a freshman at Seoul National University, set himself on fire and then jumped to his death from the roof of a school building...