Word: candlelit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...halls of the White House echo with music almost every day and night, as visiting choirs take turns singing for the huge crowds that walk in awed silence through the candlelit state rooms. Musty portraits of Presidents from Christmases past have been garlanded with evergreens: even Chester Arthur with his mutton chops got an injection of cheer...
...week there were celebrations, formal and informal, public and private, to mark O'Connor's triumph. Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who guided the confirmation vote from his position as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, gave a candlelit dinner in her honor at a Pakistani restaurant. In marked contrast to the spicy food in front of them, Nancy Thurmond, the Senator's wife, offered a dulcet toast to O'Connor as "the best thing to come down the pike since Girl Scout cookies." On Thursday, at a ceremony in the Rose Garden honoring federal district...
...pointed out in the October Washingtonian magazine. Prince George's County, Md., may soon provide "the purest test in the area of the ability of blacks and whites to live together." Such facets of Washington life are not the concern of Washington haters, who concentrate their fury on candlelit Georgetown and rich but modest Cleveland Park. Yet their grievances about Washington run far deeper than this. And not all have to do with the meddlesome...
...tourists could not find much to say about night life in the capital. The restaurants close at 11 p.m. The hotels offer a tour entitled "Moscow after Dark," which suggests the Muscovite equivalent of Paris' Crazy Horse Saloon or perhaps Uzbeks leaping to the ceiling in a gloomy candlelit cavern. But the trip turned out, in fact, to be the same as the "Morning Tour." In both cases, the Intourist guide begins: "Moscow is the largest city in the U.S.S.R...