Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pierre L'Enfant proposed a monument to the U.S. Navy when he designed the nation's capital in 1791, but not until last week, on the Navy's 212th anniversary, was a memorial to the service finally dedicated. The 100- ft.-diameter circular plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue "enshrines, in stone and metal, the gratitude of a nation," Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told a crowd of 6,000 Navy veterans and other spectators...
...concerned herself with everything, from the low volume of the trombones to the interplay between the sections and between the players. But scores, she made clear, were "not written in stone." "We'll dictate now what's going on," she said...
James Bridges, Michael Richie '68, Leonard Nimoy, John Hughes, Oliver Stone, and Philipp Kauffman are some of the directors who may come to Harvard later this year, Goldstine said...
...made of adobe, but she and Ron built their two- story, five-room house for $6,000 out of logs and cement. It is a handsome, organically grown house with unpredictable flourishes: the door handle made out of a part from a lawn mower, the recesses in the stone walls for candles, the richly ornate wood carvings throughout. Although the Oests don't have plumbing, a telephone or a well, they do have electricity and a refrigerator they bought for $10 from a neighbor who later shot himself because his condominiums failed...
...WORST movie of all is the title piece, "Amazon Women on the Moon," a B-grade 1950s sci-fi disaster, whose plot can be deduced from its title. The film's accurate stone-age special effects (rockets hanging from wires, etc.) and sound problems are surpassed in ludicrousness only by the film's overt jingoism, sexism, materialism and xenophobia...