Horror movie.L.A.'s Department of Public Works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. wants Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. to know what life would be like without its efforts. It has hired Showreel International Inc. to produce a $49,000 "A Day in the Life Without Public Works," depicting a world where the trash doesn't get picked up, potholes go unfilled and traffic lights are stuck on red. The film opens with a family saying their morning goodbyes. Then the father drives off to work, but gets caught in a traffic tie-up caused by a malfunctioning mal·func·tion intr.v. mal·func·tioned, mal·func·tion·ing, mal·func·tions 1. To fail to function. 2. To function improperly. n. 1. Failure to function. 2. signal, and spills his coffee as he hits a pothole pothole, in geology, cylindrical pit formed in the rocky channel of a turbulent stream. It is formed and enlarged by the abrading action of pebbles and cobbles that are carried by eddies, or circular water currents that move against the main current of a stream. . Meanwhile, his wife's jogging group has to outrun out·run tr.v. out·ran , out·run, out·run·ning, out·runs 1. a. To run faster than. b. To escape from: outrun one's creditors. 2. a sewage spill. Later, his daughter's path home from school is blocked by illegal dumping. "A lot of people don't realize what your life would be like without certain things that we take for granted," said Lynne B. Jackson, Showreel's president. But if you believed the 2002 campaign for Valley secession, you wouldn't know this was fiction. "I didn't even think about that," said Jackson. "A lot of that has to do with whether there's funding for that. That was another reason to put the video together. Without the funding and the bonds passed, this could happen." |
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