Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flow of energy that runs through the show is seemingly endless: after nearly an hour and a half of strenuous physical activity the dancers are still well able to bounce and contort their bodies impressively in the jazzy segment, "Peas." Bright green costumes, upbeat music by the Ohio Players, and creative, challenging movements conclude the show in a final display of the grace and power that make up the Snappy Productions company...
John Goodall, a river watcher with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, stood on a bridge over a picturesque stretch of King's Creek last week tugging at his bright red fisherman's overalls and frowning as he looked down at his catch. With a single toss of his net, Goodall had pulled up 14 perky-looking menhaden, a finger-length bait fish native to Maryland's Eastern Shore. But on closer inspection, all except one of the fish turned out to have ugly red-brown lesions across their silvery skin, where bacteria were literally eating them alive. "It's just horrific...
...first nothing happened. My mood stayed bright. I slept. I concluded that I had a soul after all and that my moods weren't merely molecular. Then the inevitable slippage started. With plottable predictability, as if my brain were a slowly draining beaker, my sense of well-being sank and sank until I felt lower and darker than ever before. I went back to a doctor--a specialist this time--and asked flat out for Prozac, by then the subject of books and articles. One week later I felt fully restored and resigned myself to a humbling new self-image...
...really dark in my room. I can't see anything, so I never read in my room," says Cruz. "I'm used to bright light. A regular desk lamp...
...more years and we'd slip further, into the bright, white bald-headed life of THX-1138 (1970), George Lucas' art-house sci-fi first feature, expanded from a student film he did at USC. Robert Duvall stars with Donald Pleasance (an easy bit of casting); look for cameos by Yul Brynner and Chiang Kai-Shek. Imagine a world of naked sadism, prescription drugs and robot policemen ? where the only erotic words are "no one is watching," and everyone really is. Imagine a bleak, bleached future in which "sexual perversion" (in this case, just regular sex) was a punishable crime...