Word: blackest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...store contrasts with his reprehensible neglect of his duties at the end. My Uncle Antoine is one of the most accessible of complex works, full of captivating imagery, often most expressive when the dialogue is most scarce, maintaining a slight air of frivolity at all but the blackest moments--and containing a depth and energy as welcome as it may be unexpected...
...towards the end. Pacino speaks measuredly and quietly, with sudden intervals of rage and continual flashes of humor, and when he talks of descanting on his own deformity or wonders at the blindness that finds him a marv'llous proper man, he means what he says. In even his blackest lies, we sense some sincerity, as though he has indeed determined to prove a villain reluetantly, after sounding his own nature and discovering that he cannot prove a lover...
...Lyndon Johnson agreed to Israeli aggression and gave it his blessing. Americans know very well that Johnson's rule was one of the blackest, most wasted periods in U.S. history. I hope there will be a brave American who one day will reveal the facts exactly as an American has revealed the facts on U.S. involvement in the Vietnamese...
...Johnny's band. The material was presented faithfully and with polish and included Stevie Wonder's "Do Yourself a Favor," the old Rhythm and Blues standard "Turn On Your Love Light" and a syncopated winter original "Cool Fool," Winter, who plays piano and sex, also has one of the blackest voices in the business and had no problem interpreting the material...
First, stock prices plummeted. From Jan. 1 to May 26, which was the blackest day of the bear market, the Dow-Jones industrial average sank from 800 to an eight-year low of 631. During that period alone, the paper loss for securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange was $113 billion, and the nation's 31 million investors lost an average of $3,645 each. The losses were even more severe for stocks on the American Stock Exchange and on the over-the-counter market. The latter came close to collapse for many days during the late...