Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Around 9:50 p.m., a van arrived to transport the suspects to HUPD headquarters at 29 Garden...
...That's how an army of workaholics helped create three new computer-generated worlds, 1,200 costumes, 65 standing sets, 140 new beasties. To research Podrace vehicles, they went to the world's largest jet junkyard, outside Phoenix, and scavenged for 747 engines. They thought big (a Russian military-transport plane flew the Podracers to the Tunisian location) and cheap (a women's electric shaver serves as a Jedi comlink; the waterfalls in Naboo are...salt...
...first and finest examples of the new realism that arose in American theater in the '70s, Mamet's play, if done correctly, can transport audiences away from the confines of even the stuffiest theater to the world of small-time Chicago crooks and coin-thieves. And, yes, it is a world. It has a landscape, a language and a code of honor all its own. It is a world where business and crime are synonyms, where friends equal family, and where loyalty is the highest ideal...
...managed to flee Kosovo since the air war began, the states to which they fled were convulsed. Inside Macedonia and Montenegro, officials struggled to hold together governments stunned by the economic and social costs of the influx. Meanwhile, relief organizations scrambled to build tent cities, and NATO diverted transport planes from the war effort to rush in food, which the refugees were consuming at the rate of about 250 tons a day. About 120,000 people were to be convoyed or flown out of the Balkans for temporary resettlement around the world; the U.S. first agreed to house...
...guerrilla war in a hilly country, where camouflage is easy and offensive operation hard. Kosovo's mountains stretch up nearly 9,000 ft., and the snow-clogged highlands are almost completely underdeveloped, with few four-wheel-drive tracks and no roads. The only modes of transport are donkeys and feet--a kind of primitiveness that serves as a leveller between the ammo-starved K.L.A. and the powerfully armed Serbs...