Word: towers
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...house in which every nook and cranny is filled with clocks--clocks that tick the future into the present. Time, in fact, enters into every aspect of the movie, becoming so pressing an issue that the small clocks in Doc's house are transformed into a huge clock tower from which he precariously hangs in his attempt to send Marty back to 1985. Back to the Future explores the ethics of rewriting the past and of manipulating the future, so that what begins as purely an airy farce has its philosophical moments as well...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George Shultz hymned the praises of peace inside the vast General Assembly chamber, sharpshooters crouched on nearby rooftops, police helicopters whirred overhead, and U.S. Coast Guard boats patrolled the East River, which courses past the U.N.'s great green-glass tower. Divers, meanwhile, plumbed the river depths looking for bombs. To protect the visiting potentates will reportedly require the vigilance of more than half of the 2,000 agents of the U.S. Secret Service, and up to 3,000 New York City policemen, as well as State Department security agents...
...helter-skelter pattern of devastation left the city studded with contrasts. The capital's tallest buildings, the Pemex Tower (46 stories) and the Latin American Tower (43 stories), both designed to sway flexibly during an earthquake, were untouched. Less than two miles away, between 50 and 60 employees of the TV network Televisa died when their five-story office building collapsed. About half a mile from that calamity, the nine-story Mexican Insurance Co. building was shattered. Next door, office workers lunched calmly last week at the unmarred Great Wall Chinese restaurant...
...rest of the world, aware of the quake but uncertain as to its impact, the disruption of communications caused in part by the collapse of Mexico City's main transmission tower prolonged the suspense. Only TV-13 provided information, and only to those who were fortunate enough to still have electricity; sections of the city were without power. A station in Bogota, Colombia, was able to monitor the Mexican channel's transmissions via satellite, and relayed the highlights to the outside world. International telephone and telex circuits were down and, as during the U.S. invasion of Grenada...
...from behind in the water. It didn't knock me down, but it was extraordinary. I looked around and saw there weren't any boats nearby, and I said, 'Where'd that come from?' Then everything was perfectly still." On the 48th floor of the 64-story Transco Tower in Houston, Martha Carlin saw "water sloshing around in the coffee urns. Office doors were closing, and the building was in motion. I looked out the window at the trees and they were standing still, so I knew the wind wasn't blowing." The tremors were also felt in McAllen...