Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...units and lots of examples of NATO planes returning to base with all their bombs because they couldn't be sure of dropping their payloads on the right place. Last week that changed. Across 70% of Yugoslavia, elevators creaked to a halt, faucets dribbled, stoves cooled and TVs blackened. Traffic lights and tram lines were out, and pump failures forced Serbs to the Danube River for water to flush their toilets. And as the bombing expanded, so did the civilian casualties. On Friday night an allied warplane--most likely a U.S. B-2--dropped a load of bombs...
...outrageous trip of the '70s. No more Lucies in the skies, no more fields of strawberries; only Ruby walking alone through her wallpaper tracks with the ghosts of a faded age, shaking hands with Kinks, Beatles and Zombies. Outside her window, it is a normal world with birds and traffic, but Ruby lives in a music box, where the music is strung together with sturdy strumming, straightforward rhythm-bones and innocent voices on the cusp of corruption. She can hear little else than the tinkling and moaning of a hollow synthesizer that gets so lonely it would be frightening...
...received a call from a Cambridge resident who said her motor vehicle had been struck from behind while sitting at a traffic light on Mass. Ave. The victim was stuck in traffic when she was rear-ended by a Honda Accord. The operator then exited the vehicle and struck the car that she had just hit on the window with her fist while yelling at the victim to get out of the car so she could break her face. The victim then fled the scene. She said she thought the suspect had followed her home from work in Waltham...
...traffic controllers are the true macho men of sky biz--cowboy choreographers who get the dozens of planes over New York City's airports "lined up like Rockettes." As long as Glen and Les Charles' script focuses on the controllers' wayward bravado, the film has the tang of an old Howard Hawks film about tough guys under pressure. But like its frazzled hero, Nick (John Cusack), this ambitious, well-cast movie goes haywire when Nick's rivalry with psycho-genius Billy Bob Thornton turns into a game of sexual oneupsmanship. Tin tailspins into silliness and never regains its flight pattern...
Over the past few years, I have developed the bad habit of writing down notes on scraps of paper, inserting them into pockets of my wallet and then completely forgetting their whereabouts. A spring cleaning of my wallet recently turned up the business card of an Icelandic air-traffic controller, several unnamed phone numbers and a plethora of crumpled receipts, each bearing some scrawled epiphany that time has rendered completely unintelligible...