Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Widener had received some renovationsin the past which focused on a new roof and thewindows, the interior of the building has notreceived any recent makeovers...
...commission, adding yet another to the parade of blue-ribbon panels that until now have produced little more than unread reports full of alarming statistics and familiar options. And while Clinton last week preached the virtue of acting early--"in the words of the old saying, to fix the roof while the sun is shining"--the fact is, politicians usually have to be staring a crisis in the face before they are willing to do anything painful to stop it. The danger to Social Security is real but not immediate. Though the crunch may begin to be felt as early...
...arrived at the hotel at the end of the world in the middle of a rainstorm, a waitress was positioning a gleaming silver ice bucket to catch the drops from a leaky roof. I knew this place had class...
...from a brief spate of spoken-word spots on MTV, pop culture seems to have forsaken poetry altogether. Which makes us wonder, can a nationwide publicity blitz sway today's younger readers? What America really needs now is Courtney Love, wearing a diaphanous nightie, reading Czeslaw Milosz from the roof of the Viper Club. Now that would be something...
...Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down" is the album's second single, but its obvious take on Bowie's cabaret-inflected songs on (you guessed it) Hunky Dory fails because it's precisely that--too obvious. Not even Sheryl Crow playing accordion saves the skittering strings and shuffling snare from being unengaging and pedestrian. The last two tracks, "Mockingbird Girl" and "Opposite Octave Reaction," are fuzzed-out noise rockers--cleverly produced, but utterly uncompelling...