Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...melt. After Dole's convention speech and the duo's first rally in San Diego on Friday morning, Kemp grabbed Dole's good (left) arm and lifted it high. Both times Dole kept his arm up for fewer than 10 seconds before wriggling free. But by afternoon, under a bright sky in downtown Denver, as Dole and Kemp came onstage, Dole reached for his running mate's passing arm and raised it into the air, held it there, then held it there some more. This time Kemp let go first. Dole even did a soft-shoe shuffle to the strains...
They came to the plays in limos or on Rollerblades, in bright summer colors or basic Beckett black. Inside, they toted books by or about the master. When the curtain rose, their attention was votive; they laughed and sighed and never dared cough. The dangling melodramatic ending of one play elicited a collective gasp, like that of a child hearing a ghost story's tantalizing punch line. At the curtain calls their faces beamed at the actors with rapture and gratitude. In the lobby afterward they bought T shirts reading GATE THEATRE--BECKETT FESTIVAL...
OLYMPIC TORCH BURNING BRIGHT...
...nature. The second summer does not have the blithe optimism of the first half of the season. From now until the Series a sense of mortality begins to lower over the game like a suspicion, which by late September will deepen to a certain knowledge that something that was bright, lusty and overflowing with possibility can come...
...grass on which he ran and the waiting to see if he would catch up with the ball and the reek of your sweat and of everyone who sat like Seurat dots in the stadium, in the carved-out bowl of a planet that shines pale in daylight, bright purple and emerald at night...