Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actress, wedged between Hasty Pudding Theatricals President John S. Berman '95 and Vice-President Aaron R. Zelman '96, waved from the back of the Saab at people lining the streets of Harvard Square. She even found a moment to smile for the telephoto lenses bristling from the press truck proceeding slowly in front...
...cross a busy street, normal people might go to the corner and wait for the green. Not Jackie. Standing on a balcony in his Police Story II, he jumps onto a truck going one way, onto a double-decker bus going the other way and then through a window into the second floor of the villain's headquarters...
...sides with plastic sheeting could only help relieve part of the crisis. In shipshape Dutch style, the evacuation proceeded in a remarkably orderly manner; the notices went out by post. Even so, a bit of unforeseen chaos ensued when some highways became paralyzed with traffic. Seemingly every car and truck that could move was pressed into carrying refugees burdened with cargo ranging from pigs to pianos. Saving livestock put unusual pressures on vehicles and roads. As the exodus progressed, the Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, just north of the flood zone, turned into a latter-day Noah's ark. For three...
Much evidence comes from big-ticket items like autos and housing, among the first to be clobbered by rising interest rates. The past three years were heady ones for Detroit, which saw car and truck sales climb 8% in 1993 and an additional 8.6% in 1994. But with sales expected to grow just 3% this year, automakers are scaling back production schedules and idling plants. Ford, which had declared three temporary closings in January, said it would also shut a Canadian plant that makes full-size Crown Victorias for a week beginning Monday, and close a Ford Thunderbird and Mercury...
...Carrey, sublimely confident that he knows what he's doing as he attempts to return a briefcase full of funny money to a woman (Lauren Holly) with whom he is smitten. This involves a journey across America with Harry (Jeff Daniels), Lloyd's equally dense roommate, in a truck that looks like a gigantic sheep dog. In order to enjoy the pair's company, adult viewers must regress to those thrilling days of yesteryear when bodily dysfunction represented the height of hilarity. But Carrey (ably abetted here by the woofly Daniels) is both symbol and satirist of our apparently irresistible...