Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Between the winter hours of 4 and 6, the long avenues of Sunset Park glow like orange groves, the light trickling into the side streets the way water glints in dark canals. Each area of the neighborhood has its own light. On the older residential streets, the lights in the houses are modest, like candle glow, except where someone has decided to explode with the season and Christmas lights engulf a house to the extent that no house shows. At the harbor, the late day brings almost total darkness; the lights are on the water in the windows...
...hill, the quiet churches, the low houses looking for their occupants' return at the day's end. At P.S. 314, Diana Hart-Johnson rehearses the Nutcracker presentation scheduled for Christmas week. Teenage boys, galoots, clomp on the stage and attempt to learn their dance as the Spirit of Winter Dreams. The smaller children make soldiers' hats. The windows of the school blaze out into the cold...
...years later, Davey Senior ran off to Florida with another woman, leaving Rose with the first of her children, Davey Junior, a boy of 15 today. Davey's one winter jacket was stolen last week. Rose vows to get it back. Joey, the second-oldest child, was produced by Frankie, with whom Rose lived for a year. The four other children belong to Vincent, with whom, until recently, Rose has been in an on-and-off custody war. Rose won the first * battle after Vincent had taken Sabrina and was sent to jail in handcuffs. "I hated...
...currently average $1.21 per gal. in the U.S. compared with a peak of $1.42 in March 1981, could fall about 2 1/2 cents for every $1 decline in crude prices. The response of heating-fuel prices to an oil-price drop depends partly on the weather. A particularly cold winter would keep supplies tight and prices up, while a warm one would likely cause a decline...
...winter of our discontent.'--Richard...