Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With bright red lights above the street...
...newly furbished Towse Arena in Durham, N.H. boasts an amazingly well-it interior to accompany the Olympic-sized surface of 200' by 100.' In comparison, Bright Hockey Center is only...
Bahcall has used the telescope to take pictures of quasars, starlike objects so bright they can be seen halfway across the universe. Most theorists think quasars are intimately related to giant black holes like the one Ford found; presumably their intense light comes from gas compressed with such force that it explodes in bright bursts of energy. That implies that every quasar should have a galaxy around it, but in several cases Bahcall found no clear evidence of one. "This," he said when he announced his observations, "is a giant leap backward in our understanding of quasars...
...Dole or Bill Clinton into Rhett Butler.) As Powell's case shows, the romance of the withheld is powerful. Scarlett wanted Ashley because she could not have him. Human nature yearns for--idealizes--what is placed out of reach: Lycidas, the hero who dies in youth; Camelot, the bright, magic might-have-been. A politics of Zen--the most powerful presence is someone who isn't there...
...Kentucky, Democrat Paul Patton won a narrow victory over Republican Larry Forgy, while Mississippi's Republican incumbent Kirk Fordice trounced his Democratic opponent Dick Molpus in one of the day's few bright spots for the G.O.P...