Word: window
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screen shows two Dallas Cowboys football players, Randy White and Ed ("Too Tall") Jones, collecting litter along a Texas highway. As White picks up a discarded beer can, he leans into the camera and growls, "You see the guy who threw this out the window? I got a message for him." He crushes the can in one powerful fist as Jones snarls, "Don't mess with Texas...
...prince named She who was fond of dragons. The prince had pictures of the mythical beasts on his walls and carved on the pillars of his house. One day a real dragon heard about the prince's obsession. But when the slithery monster poked its head through the window, Prince She trembled with fear and hid himself. The current Peking regime, say the students, is behaving much like the prince. For months, they say, the authorities encouraged political reform. But when democracy actually poked its head through the window, in the form of student demonstrations, government officials tried to push...
...metaphor from pool, he takes a shot at the setup and sees where the balls go." Peking may have quieted the restive students for a while. But it is probably only a matter of time before, once again, the dragon of democracy pokes its head through Deng's window...
Whenever I leaned back before a large lunch, with remote control to the VCR in hand and a view of the grassy corral out the window, I remembered to look in the hallway. Sure enough the Mexican cleaning woman was lurking in the shadows, perched on a set of drawers and gobbling down her bag lunch. She would never accept my invitation to join me at the table, she only smiled...
...Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles, evokes a dreamy pre-Columbian (or extraterrestrial) temple. The exterior is rich and singular: roughly cut red sandstone blocks, green aluminum panels, a barrel vault floating above the ; sidewalk. Inside, only the library, with its extraordinary white onyx window, is architecturally aggressive. The seven scrupulously conceived galleries are restrained, plain, deferential...