Word: trashed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peter and Judy find a board game under a tree one afternoon while their parents are out and take it home to play. When they roll the dice, strange events ensue: rhinoceroses stampede into the living room, monkeys trash the kitchen, an 8-ft. snake luxuriates on the living-room mantel. A monsoon erupts, and volcanic lava fills the house, until, on the brink of disaster, Peter and Judy manage to end the game before their parents come home. The house instantly returns to normal. But then neighboring children take the game to their own house to play, unaware...
...three R's are reduce, re-use, and recycle, in order of preference," said Robert Gogan, a graduate student in planning and social policy at the Ed School. "Harvard generates 6500 tons of trash per year, as much as a small city...
...University can save money by encouraging active recycling programs like the one recently implemented at the Kennedy School of Government, Cebon said. He said Harvard pays about $700,000 a year to dispose of unrecycled trash...
Lucy Moore (Mary Stuart Masterson) has a baby, or will in a few weeks. In the modern fashion of adoption, the Spectors spend time getting to know her. And to like her -- Lucy has a lot to like. A blossom growing out of white trash, she teeters between unaffected adolescence and poignant maturity. But perhaps the Spectors are also rehearsing for parenthood; perhaps they are determined to send sweet signals across the barriers of culture, class and age. They realize that their ability to adopt her baby depends finally on Lucy's whim. So, effectively, they adopt Lucy...
...more extraordinary subplots that develops is that of a teenage girl who gets a job cleaning trash off the streets after the day's filming. One day, after getting paid, she disappears and an older woman who kept an eye on her says she has left to do crack with the money she earned. The teenager returns several days later to resume her work, but the subject is never brought up again...