Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BENEATH A BLUE UMBRELLA by Jack Prelutsky (Greenwillow; $15.95). The poet laureate of childhood has found his ideal illustrator in Garth Williams. Here are enough amusement and instruction to last a lifetime. Sample: "I had a little secret/ that I could not wait to tell,/ I whispered it to Willa,/ who repeated it to Nell./ Nell had to tell Belinda,/ who told Laura and Lenore,/ I think my little secret/ is no secret anymore...
...little problem. Though satellite dishes were the best way to bring in additional channels, several homeowner associations banned the contraptions on the grounds that they are ugly. To the rescue came Under Cover Satellite Systems. The Indio, Calif., firm created dishes in disguise: satellite antennas that resemble patio umbrellas. For $3,000 to $5,000 -- about the price of an ordinary dish -- the company will have a dealer install one in any of six colors, complete with table and four matching chairs. The umbrella covers are made of a specially woven acrylic fabric that allows signals to pass through without...
...their local stations. Network executives argue that their newscasts must go beyond simply recapping the day's news and provide more analysis and background. The most radical move in this direction is coming from NBC Nightly News, which has instituted a round robin of daily features with catchy umbrella titles ("What Works," "Vital Signs") and on some nights has scrapped the news-of-the-day approach entirely and devoted the broadcast to one topic, such as the Persian Gulf crisis...
Park says she hopes that all the a cappella groups will support each other more in the future. She says she hopes that Harvard will someday form an umbrella a cappella organization similar to the one at Yale, which coordinates concerts and regulates auditions...
About halfway down the block, I stopped. In the driveway of a house across the street lay a woman stretched out on the ground--asleep, I thought--under an umbrella...