Word: slided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slide machine is quite effective in one particularly funny scene. As Collie Couch begins her story of an unlucky dog with a life analogous to Garga's, the screen takes a break from its usual depressing scenes to show a pipy little canine drawing laughs from the audience. The picture complement, though small in size, helps bring a bit of the harsh city to the relatively cozy Ex stage...
...were so different. That's probably why they were attracted to each other. They both love classical music and they both love my sisters and me. Aside from that, they had nothing in common. With Dad everything was precision, accuracy, "bead-on." He had the fastest slide rule in Arizona and spoke two languages: English and Computer. When I was about eleven, my dad came home and gathered us all in the kitchen. He held up a tiny little transistor he had brought home and said, "This is the future." I took the transistor from his hand...
...chemicals," he said, chuckling again. "But I think our nine lives are up," he finished, chuckling still more heartily. The Rev. Mr. Page told a joke about the Johnstown flood more than once. James Stinson, a former Green Beret, now an antiterrorism consultant, pressed a button hooked to a slide projector. "I hope this doesn't detonate anything," he said...
...Mexico. Above the horseshoe-shaped counter on panels where a menu is usually displayed, an overhead slide show is in progress. The pictures change slowly, allowing the viewer to take in all the details. A low shot of a Peterbilt, its chrome fittings sparkling in the sunshine, is followed by one of a bosomy young woman, the same who must pose for those calendars found in auto-parts stores. She almost has on clothes, and she is offering to check a trucker's oil. The next slide is a side view of a whole tractor-trailer rig, its 18 wheels...
Mary Paul and Lisa Rowning were in "Art and Politics" lecture one day when they saw slide of the Goddess Fortuna. Paul began calling her teammate "Fortuna," and the name stuck...