Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tank: a shallow pool with a cement strip, slides and oarlocks set in the center. A tank allows a crew to practice as a unit in the winter...
Most of the vignettes try to show how TV aims for the lowest common denominator, making its programming as shallow as possible. There are commercials for such products as Silly Pate, an hors d'oeurve that picks up newsprint, bounces off walls, and tastes good on crackers. An "In Search Of" type show called "Bullshit or Not?" proposes that jack the Ripper was really the Loch Ness monster in disguise. On a movie review show, the critics discuss in seriousness such films as "Frat Slobs" and the Swedish import "Winter of My Despondency...
...Awkward Revelation. The Kinnock kleptomania was particularly damaging to Biden since it underscored the prior concerns that he was a shallow vessel for other people's ideas...
...many new ultracrafts, jet-powered engines have replaced outmoded rudders and propellers, allowing for vibration-free lightweight fiber glass or aluminum hulls and easy entry into shallow-water ports. According to London- based Designer Jon Bannenberg, who has six yachts in the works for Americans, high tech has just about revolutionized the business. "The perception of yachts was big, slow, rather old-fashioned," says Bannenberg. "Now people see something connected to the life they lead ashore. People who step out of their Porsches and Mercedes feel that they are stepping into today's technology...
...ground with hydraulic jacks and dynamite. After that, the operators run water over the area to clean away the debris. This process exposes emerald-bearing white calcite veins. Miners are able to pick out the larger crystals, but most of the smaller ones have been washed down to shallow riverbeds below the mine, % where swarms of guaqueros sift through the mud in search of the precious stones. The most enterprising treasure hunters use dynamite and hand tools to burrow tunnels into places where a mining company has already excavated, trying to reach the white calcite veins...