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...Houses of Parliament and the Tower of London. Only a few miles upriver are the meadows of Runnymede, where the barons extracted the Magna Carta from King John. The Thames is indeed England's Royal River, but it has not always been treated royally. Long a favorite garbage dump, the Thames' tidal waters near London had become so foul by the 17th century that James I threatened to move his court to Windsor. Then came two events that turned the river into what Victorians called a "monster soup": the Industrial Revolution and the closing of London...
...looters came into the store around 9:30 p.m. and began to dump merchandise onto the floor and throw it around the store, James L. Shiverdecker, manager of Store 24, said last night. Later they threw the cash register onto the floor and stole over $100, he added...
...Luthor (Gene Hackman), who lives in splendor 200 feet below Metropolis' railroad station. Luthor, who has a moronic aide (Ned Beatty) and a voluptuous moll (Valerie Perrine), is played strictly for laughs. He plots to set off an atomic device on the San Andreas Fault and thereby dump the California coast into the Pacific (he owns the land that will remain). "You've got your faults," he tells Superman, "and I've got mine...
...ankles, turning the star into a "snowflake." I look about and cannot help grinning at the wonder of it: all of us up here hurtling through the sky together. Jonathan Livingston Seagull in his wildest imaginings could not have conceived of it. At 4,000 ft. we break apart, "dump" our parachutes and float to the airport below...
...Kennedy? Where did it all begin? If Mike Dukakis hadn't gotten stomped way back on September 19, well, none of this would be happening now. Remember, Ed King and his gang weren't quite sure they would be able to "Dump the Duke" or the "Dukakis Jewdiciary"--not quite sure because when it finally happened Ed himself looked pretty surprised. But they did it in a big way, leaving Frank Hatch to face a Democrat who drove people like his running mate, Tommy O'Neill, into complete silence. Frank Hatch was not prepared for the block of Democrats...