Word: rooftops
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...goes out at night may be shot on sight," says Abdel Nasser, 24. "We sit and think only of revenge." In a nearby hideout, Jamal and fellow activists gather to chain smoke, play cards and mythologize their suffering. When the claustrophobia becomes unbearable, they sneak up to the rooftop to stare at the stars and the sweeping spotlights from Israeli patrols. Says Bassem, 29, who has been on the run for a year: "I'm expecting one of two things: either prison or death in an ambush...
When it comes to spying on its own people, China has revealed a surprising -- and daunting -- competence. Few in Beijing paid much attention to the cameras mounted on lampposts, rooftops and entryways along streets foreigners frequent. The SCOOT system, made by a British firm and purchased partly with development aid, was purportedly installed as part of a traffic-control system to count vehicles. The cameras were also secretly counting contacts between foreigners and Chinese, as John Pomfret, the A.P. correspondent expelled last week, found out. The Beijing State Security Bureau documented its charges against him with, among other evidence, photos...
...problem. He simply studied during the rooftop barbecue scene--and now he's anxious for the commercial to air so he can prove to everyone that he did do academic work at Harvard...
...light of all these lives is Cyril's live-in girlfriend Shirley (Ruth Sheen), buck-toothed and, in her self-effacing way, greathearted. Quietly, she has turned their dark, cramped flat into a haven for waifs and strays (including, finally, Mrs. Bender). Quietly too she tends her struggling rooftop garden and keeps trying to talk Cyril into having a child. What can you do these days but make a warm place to nurture people -- and some small hopes for a less harum-scarum future? Perhaps pause to admire a brave and subtle film that knowingly explores ideas, even ideologies...
...there, they could let us grow some vegetables." He isn't making any predictions yet about the impact of the park, though he's quite pleased with this season's chard. Just ahead, a road crew plants pilings for one of the access bridges that will connect the rooftop park and Riverside Drive. The foreman says, "The state thinks it's building a park up there? They're crazy. Go have a look." A left turn leads to the dock, where garbage barges are piled high each day and sent off to the trash heap of history. Take a right...