Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...violence can be changed after all. With the standoff in Portadown ready to turn into a massive weekend eruption, Protestant would-be marchers and the Catholic residents they would march past were talking Friday -- through intermediaries -- about a compromise. "Northern Ireland has run to the edge of the abyss, looked over, and decided they don't really want to jump," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand in Belfast. "The fact they're talking, even indirectly, is an amazing accomplishment...
...Beatty, who directs as well as stars in this film about a politician who comes down with a terminal case of telling anyone and everyone the truth, initially looks like the Senator he famously hung out with, Gary Hart. But he allows himself to descend so far into the abyss--no shower, no shave, soiled clothes--that he looks his age (61) and, for the first time in a film, doesn't have...
Adolf Hitler or the incarnation of absolute evil; this is how future generations will remember the all-powerful Fuhrer of the criminal Third Reich. Compared with him, his peers Mussolini and Franco were novices. Under his hypnotic gaze, humanity crossed a threshold from which one could see the abyss...
...Koop's public health camp want the FDA to have tight control over nicotine content," says Carney. "The Republicans hate regulatory agencies, and they hate regulation." Unless McCain can bridge what Carney calls "a pretty big gap," the the tobacco deal will quickly slide back into the legislative abyss...
...this is fuel for her new fire. Now the spotlight feels to her like an inferno, and her popularity looks like an abyss. "I traded fame for love," she laments on the CD's opening song, the gently cascading Drowned World/Substitute for Love. On the subdued Nothing Really Matters, she confesses "Looking at my life/It's very clear to me/I lived so selfishly...