Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Raid the toilet paper supply in your house super's office. You needn't wait for the first snow of the winter to impress parents strolling through house courtyards. Imagine: toilet-paper snowpeople in Mid-November! And if your House experiences a run on those fluffy white rolls, old copies of the Lampoon might just finish...
...hour, does not necessarily buy you shelter anymore -- especially in America's tourist boomtowns. Life for the working class in resort areas has always been short on personal amenities, but the situation is now reaching crisis proportions because of stagnating wages and escalating real estate prices. From snow-and-arts resorts like Breckenridge, Colorado, to country- music Meccas like Branson, Missouri, America's playlands are producing a booming class of unfortunates: the hardworking homeless. To step off the main drag of a glistening little jewel like Telluride, then, is like stepping out the back flap of a circus tent: Lord...
...Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds -- but if they are late, they'll hide or trash your mail and no one will be the wiser." That seems to be the new motto for certain employees of the U.S. Postal Service. In a surprise audit disclosed last week, postal inspectors in Washington found that some local managers temporarily stashed unprocessed mail in parked trailers so that the letters and packages wouldn't be immediately noticed as delayed. Millions of pieces of undelivered mail were found, including...
Shrouded by the following snow...
...there; they poked at a feeling until it sang a perky or rhapsodic Alan Menken tune. Nothing was lacking in these terrific movies, but something was missing: primal anguish, the kind that made children wet the seats of movie palaces more than a half- century ago as they watched Snow White succumb to the poison apple or Bambi's mother die from a hunter's shotgun blast. Disney cartoons were often the first films kids saw and the first that forced them to confront the loss of home, parent, life. These were horror movies with songs, Greek tragedies with...