Word: deck
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Deck the Christmas movie column, / Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!/ 'Tis the season to be solemn...
...huge project is Shell's $500 million Bullwinkle platform, 130 km (80 miles) off the Louisiana coast. Standing 162 stories high -- taller by 49 m (161 ft.) than Chicago's Sears Tower -- it looms like a gigantic iceberg in 412 m (1,353 ft.) of water, only its top-deck production facilities visible above the water. Chevron is planning a big project nearby. Southeast of New Orleans, Exxon is operating a 110-story platform, and a few miles away British Petroleum is erecting its own 100-story behemoth...
Psssst! Want a deal on some Jordan Airs? Joan & David pumps? A Donna Karan dress? The latest Sony tape deck? Without slogging through the sales racks at five different department stores? And in a place where the teenagers can hang out and Dad can catch a football game on TV? Well, here's a concept in shopping-till-you're-dropping, just in time for Christmas and the recession: megamalls with maxi discounts...
...with Lynch's Wild at Heart, The Eagle Has Two Heads is stuffed with symbolisn and thick with metaphors. The Queen predicts the events of the play with a deck of fortune-telling cards. Stanislas is also known as Azreal, or "angel of death." And there are fairly explicit allusions to, and indeed, reenactments of, such works as Hamlet. But this self-conscious symbolism need not be over- analyzed; it exists merely to provide texture...
Talk about bad timing. Just last week officials at Continental Airlines proudly unveiled new interior designs for their aircraft. But the spectacle of the troubled carrier showing off its blue-and-gray fabrics and contoured seating reminded airline experts of the old line about rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Just a week earlier the airline had veered away from a return trip to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, from which it had emerged four years ago. Instead Continental may try to raise cash by selling off some of its valuable routes and other assets. Like many of its competitors...