Word: winded
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...lose. The project attracted a national volunteer network, which produced 25,000 different banners, many with pictures of children or pets or sunsets. Tied together, the banners formed a ribbon that stretched 15 miles--long enough not only to encircle the Pentagon but also to cross the Potomac and wind around the Lincoln Memorial, the Capitol and the Ellipse behind the White House...
...United Artists will have few assets other than its film library. In contrast, MGM will retain its extensive film and TV production and distribution operations, including the 24 sound stages on its 44-acre Culver City lot and an impressive library of 2,200 films (including Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain and 2001: A Space Odyssey...
...violence in Hollywood films. Studio executives are now speculating about the entrepreneur's designs on MGM productions. Joked an MGM/UA executive last week: "Does Turner want to make movies? He did his Rhett Butler imitation when he was in here Monday." Turner, whose favorite movie is Gone With the Wind, named his son Rhett, 19, for the Clark Gable character in that film...
...white helicopter dropped out of a darkening sky, veered around a thick tree and sank its runners into the lush grass in the middle of a soccer field at El Salvador's leading military academy. A chubby figure dressed in blue jeans and a wind-breaker bolted from the chopper, dashed across the pitch and threw herself into the arms of her weeping mother. A moment later, Inés Guadalupe Duarte Durán was swept into the embrace of her tear-choked father, President José Napoleón Duarte, for whom the nation's civil war had lately become an agonizing...
...been sold. (Lots now go for $25,000 and up, more than twice the price of four years ago.) In addition, an exquisite Palladian beach pavilion has been built, another pavilion is half done, and two small restaurants are operating next door to an open-air crafts market. Footpaths wind through the built-up eastern third of Seaside's 80 acres, punctuated by gazebos and arbors. Davis wants only about 20 new houses built every year. The gradualism is meant to let Seaside's social fabric keep pace with the physical growth: when only a few dozen newcomers arrive each...