Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Three Treasures, loaded some exotic creatures onto his junk and headed back to China from the coast of East Africa. One, the long-necked K'i-lin, astounded Emperor Yu and his court. It was unlike anything they had ever seen, with its "luminous spots like a red cloud or purple mist." The K'i-lin was poked, prodded, observed from every angle, much commented upon but little understood...
With his high-heeled shoes and cumulus-cloud hairdo, Kim Jong Il displays a taste for the gaudy that is at odds with his country's spartan ways. He surrounds himself with the scions of his father's wartime comrades, a new generation of revolutionaries who call themselves the Loyal Warriors and whose cars carry license plates emblazoned with the Dear Leader's birth date. Mercurial and erratic, Kim Jong Il rarely meets foreign dignitaries. Defectors have told tales about his huge film collection, his penchant for Portuguese oranges and -- though he is reportedly married with two children -- a weakness...
...cloud has always gathered around Colombia's soccer mania. Since Colombia's elimination two weeks ago, the team had received several anonymous threats. In 1989 a referee was killed, apparently by a group of gamblers linked to drug traffickers. This year there had been rumors, none substantiated, that some of the country's drug lords had wagered heavily against the national team. Before the U.S. game, defensive back Jaime Gabriel Gomez withdrew from play after his family received death threats...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Nina Burleigh, Stanley W. Cloud, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Mark Alan Stamaty, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
...giant spiderweb, with Cranston as its center. A little spooky? Yes. So is Cranston, the master manipulator. But the makers of the film don't go over-board with his mystical abilities. Cranston isn't a superman--he's just a snazzily dressed guy with the ability to "cloud men's minds" to effectively hide his presence or convince them to do his bidding...