Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starting time for the Cambridge City Council meetings scheduled weekly at 5 p.m. the council chamber was empty Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci was not there to top his ceremonial gavel to call the session to order and ask all assembled to pledge allegiance to the flag. A blanker at snow had stopped or at least slowed the wheels of the city's government...
...each lasting from nine to eleven weeks, and two in the U.S. During the month's break between sections, he would nail down locations for future scenes. "In more than a year of shooting, we had to stop only twice," he says proudly. "I shoot in everything. Rain, snow, it doesn't make any difference to me. If I can roll that camera and move the people, I am going...
...Labor departments. These break-ins were part of a vast spying operation, created by Hubbard and directed by his wife, to gather information on "enemies" of the church. One Scientology document so identifies 136 governmental agencies at home and abroad. At its height, the espionage system, called "Operation Snow White" by Hubbard, included up to 5,000 covert agents who were placed in government offices, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as in private organizations critical of Scientology. Hubbard even assembled a dossier on President Richard Nixon and individuals ranging from U.S. Senators to members of the Rockefeller family...
...stuttery, glittering lines by the rapid "drawing" of a power grinder, respond better to sunlight or starshine than to the static lighting of a museum. The high color and splashy textures with which he sometimes painted the steel were certainly meant to be seen against the colors of tree, snow or autumn grass...
...problem is simple Though White himself seems to have kept his own hands clean, the leaders of his machine, with his apparent approval have regularly engaged in extortion and misuse of city resources. The latter has generally involved petty acts aimed at political foes Last winter, for instance, city snow plows frequently cleared every street in certain neighborhoods, except those where White's opponents in the state legislature lived (State Rep Jim Brett of Dorchester, who opposed White's "Tregor" funding bill for Boston called City Hall anonymously to complain the response "Call your rep and tell him to vote...