Word: roof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parade, towing Bart Simpson and 12 other giant balloons to Herald Square, where a 36-ft.-tall Paddington Bear now hovers invitingly above the entrance of the flagship store. In San Francisco holiday shoppers were making a beeline for the free merry-go-round and other rides on the roof of the Emporium. Across America, retailers are trying all sorts of stunts to get folks inside their stores between now and the holidays. But once there, will they...
...home with panoramic windows and pointed chimney casts a distinctive profile against the suburban sky. But only a closer inspection reveals what is truly unique about this house. Instead of sporting bricks or aluminum siding, the dwelling is covered with superstrong, superdurable plastic panels. The shingles on its vaulted roof are made not of wood but of another tough plastic; so too, in fact, are the floors, doorframes, light fixtures, plumbing pipes and even the windows...
...prospect of sizable bloodshed in the gulf, however, has led some to ask whether the current imbalance makes it too easy for the President and Congress to send forces into battle. "If the U.S. military were truly representative of the country, you would have people going through the roof right now," said former Navy Secretary James Webb two weeks ago in the Washington Post...
...group cried, "The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. We don't want excuses, we want faculty hired," a pennant peddler standing near where the demonstrators had stopped expressed bitterness about the protest to one of her colleagues...
...some superb -- and economical -- musical salvage work, Rhino specializes in repackaging oldies that more established companies have let gather dust in the vaults, from the high-octane rockabilly of Del Shannon to the screeching serenades of Lou Christie. Rhino's recent Groove 'n' Grind compilation is a floor-scuffling, roof-raising anthology of raucous party tunes from the '50s and '60s, featuring sodden classics like Land of 1,000 Dances by Cannibal and the Headhunters. The current Rockin' in the Country: The Best of Wanda Jackson is a roundup of much of the prime material recorded by a vocalist...