Word: tins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gautreau's. One of the new restaurants in the Uptown residential area, this is an urbane cafe with oxblood walls and white embossed-tin ceiling. Best dishes: batter-fried eggplant filled with shrimp and crab meat, and rabbit * fillet with sun-dried tomatoes...
...Tin Roof...
...most popular examples is gambling on where Standard & Poor's 500 stocks are going. A successful bet that the index will fall could offset losses in declining stocks. Stock-index futures are traded much like any other commodity, except that they do not represent anything real, such as wheat, tin or pork bellies...
...first exhibit shows a group of three tin washtubs standing one above the other, with water flowing from the top one down to the bottom in waterfall fashion. Plastic lobsters and fuschia rubber fish make their way down the tanks until the children figure out how to pump the water back up to the top tank again...
Bullet holes pockmark the inside and outside walls of the post and liberally ventilate the veranda's tin roof. Some local folks insist that much of the damage was caused around 1916, when Pancho Villa's men rode in for supplies during the Mexican Revolution, though there is in fact no proof that Villa or any of his men actually visited the store. Ivey is amused by the idea. "I don't know about all the bullet holes," he says, "but I do know that the roof was ventilated a few years ago at a dance. A feller felt...