Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tragedy and the exercise of generosity. Yet, as soon as a community develops, individual freedom begins to be restricted. The result is the perpetual American balancing act, which applies to disputes on AIDS, drug testing, abortion, school prayer, to any issue or condition that would blow off the national roof were there no continuing, deliberate compromise between personal liberty and citizenship...
...When a spaceship crashes through the roof of the Tanners' garage, out pops a wisecracking alien, who promptly moves in with the family. The Tanners accept this turn of events with amazing matter-of-factness, but ALF is no place to look for plausibility -- or charm. The outer-space visitor looks like an Ewok from the wrong side of the tracks and talks like Charlie the Tuna. In no time he is barging into the bathroom, hogging the stereo headset and cranking out ancient one-liners ("Do you get Sesame Street where you live?" "No, and frankly...
...probably no coincidence that Our House, the season's best family show, is the one that is not a half-hour sitcom. The form may simply have grown too fast paced and hyped with gag lines to accommodate the subtleties of relatives living under one roof. In a scene from Our House, Brimley is concerned about his grandson, who has been sulking because his moneymaking project of painting neighborhood curbs is being threatened by a pair of bullies. Brimley walks into the boy's room and finds him brooding alone. Instead of launching into a typical TV heart-to-heart...
...years, hay bales surrounded the building to cushion the plummeting facade and frustrated scholars, who did manage to get at its 2 million books, decorated the library's walls with terse commentary on the elevators that didn't work, the roof that leaked, and the books that were lost in the shuffling back and forth between libraries when the tower was closed...
After engineers threw up their hands, the chancellor directed the $2.5 million the legislature appropriated to fix the bricks in 1980 used to complete two unfinished floors, repair the elevators, put a roof over the entrance to protect scholars heads and replace the chainlink fence and saw-horses, aimed at keeping students at a safe distance from the building, with shrubbery...