Word: brightening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council remains a way for for dilletantes and administration groupies to brighten up their resumes. Is it wildly optimistic to hope for more...
WASHINGTON--Prospects for a superpower arms deal appeared to brighten yesterday with word from a Kremlin spokesman that the Soviets may ease their stand on "Star Wars" testing and the disclosure that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sent an upbeat message to Washington...
...still not sure whether I should jump around or scream or simply walk around beaming. But I know that I've just experienced a summer, defined by fragments and personalities, that will brighten my world forever...
...zappers," whose pale blue lights brighten hot summer nights wherever vegetation attracts mosquitoes, work by luring insects towards an electrified wire screen that kills them on contact...
...black crooks trying to burgle a Chicago pawnshop, is adapted from a 1958 Italian film, Big Deal on Madonna Street. Fosse, who wrote the book, stubbornly resisted advice to simplify the narrative, prune out tasteless jokes involving a urinal and a simulated oral- sex act, add more dance and brighten what he admitted was a "melancholy" ending. The score, too, is recycled: standards from the '20s and '30s have been wittily reconsidered by Fosse and bewitchingly orchestrated by Ralph Burns. I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin' is sung by a judge to two defendants telling an unlikely tale...