Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wound, but he asked them not to. He had to agree to stay in bed for eight days without moving. The view he had out his window was of a brick wall. He could see only the wall, but he imagined that above the wall was a roof, and above that a clean sky. "I had this fantasy about climbing the brick wall, then up the roof, then a running start and away...
...Skinny's roof was an old mainsail. The owners--two buddies from New Jersey and Massachusetts who moved down a decade or two ago--put the sail to better use than the members of the Coral Bay Yacht Club. Those people aren't sailing anywhere for a while...
...trying to get their mitts on a legal product. For parents today, however, cigarettes are simply another powerful danger tempting their kids--like drugs, gangs, dirty rap lyrics and steamy soaps on afternoon TV. With Mom and Pop working longer hours--assuming Mom and Pop live under the same roof--it's not hard to see why they might welcome the idea of the government stepping in to help. Conservatives have for years effectively derided liberals as champions of the "nanny state," but when it comes to unsupervised children, government-as-nanny doesn't sound all that...
...generally low-grade comedy that pervades much of the film. Boring flatulence jokes gradually steam roll over the otherwise superbly sick Klump family portrait (a lewd grandmother talking forever of "relations"; Sherman's babying mother who believes a baby's first step unimportant compared to his first roof-rumbling belch). Soon Klump's post-transformation celebration turns idiotic and offensive; it's as if "Eddie Murphy Raw" took over and started telling stand-up jokes about women's exercise...
...steamy darkness of a summer night on the Persian Gulf, Staff Sergeant Alfredo Guerrero was making the rounds of the observation posts under his command. He stepped onto the roof of one of the apartment buildings at the Khobar Towers near Dhahran and said hello to the two other members of the U.S. Air Force security police posted there. Then something caught his eye. Below he saw a white Chevrolet Caprice pulling into a public parking lot adjacent to the compound. Nothing odd about that, but the car was being followed closely by a large tanker truck...