Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This plot twist facilitates one of the more humorous scenes as a high-speed chase ensues between the O'Hara-Martin duo and the scientists. To escape the government agents, Martin shrinks the car so that it fits in the sewer. O'Hara, speeding away from a roto rooter, drives into somebody's toilet and suspense music fills the theater. The scene moves in slow motion: an extremely obese man opens the bathroom and slowly sits on the toilet. O'Hara and Martin turn their heads to each other, wearing the faces of horror at the realization that massive amounts...
...does a fast-forward rendition of the song's last verse-it is folk-singing on speed that brings the crowd back laughing...
...parental blunders, not teen tribulations. Rather than tales of untimely menstruation, Parents spotlights more mature bloopers. In Parents' "I Can't Believe I Did That" section this month, a blushing mother admits to dosing off and leaving her baby in the automatic swing for four hours on the high speed setting. Likewise, "reader quizzes" bypass classic teen quandaries of "Does He Like You?" for more mature, soul-searchers like the "Family Stress Test." The familiar, junior-friendly style of Parents magazine gently ushers readers from adolescence to parenthood...
...that Ashby would be found guilty of ?flat-hatting,? or reckless flying, in what seemed to be an open-and-shut case. But the defense convincingly argued that the ski lift was not on Ashby?s official map, that the jet?s altitude gauge malfunctioned and that Ashby believed speed and altitude restrictions in the area to be more lenient than they were. None of the defense arguments will make much of a difference to the local residents or to the large segment of Italy?s population that is left-leaning and opposed to an American military presence, says Burke...
...m.p.h. Minimum speed required by law on New Jersey state highways...