Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rarely blossomed into testimony of posthumous visitations. Nor did their homes become cathedral theme parks. Yet each year Graceland, Presley's residence in Memphis, welcomes more than half a million Elvisitors, and many are true believers. To commemorate the high holy day, Aug. 16, 10,000 acolytes hold a candlelight vigil...
...Currier House, the hallway lights came on again almost instantly. "People were studying in the halls or not studying in the halls," said Linda J. Halliday '88, who manned the Currier House desk by candlelight during the blackout...
...second album, Something Constructive, is making waves on both the country and "adult contemporary" charts. Jarvis, just finishing a tour, has already started work on a third record, playing, as usual, all keyboards and drum machines himself. Songs like Scrumpy Cider, A View from Above and Dancing by Candlelight have country tinges, rock overtones and jazz underpinnings that all work together to make the music go down easy and linger a good long while...
...President Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev begin to hash out the final details in Washington this week, representatives from several area disarmament organizations, including the Coalition for Nuclear Test Ban, Mobility for Survival, and Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility appeared in force at this candlelight vigil and march for peace...
Rising abruptly from the eastern Nevada desert, snow-capped Wheeler Peak has long been a regional attraction. Visitors began arriving in 1885, after Rancher Absalom Lehman discovered vast limestone caves in the neighboring foothills. Swinging a sledgehammer to cut paths through forests of stalactites and stalagmites, Lehman then led candlelight tours through the caves for a dollar a head. After President Warren G. Harding declared the caves a national monument in 1922, Manager Clarence Rhodes rented them out for weddings, dances and initiation ceremonies for the Knights of Pythias, who frolicked in clouds of sulfurous smoke wearing costumes...