Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tall highboy, its drawers spilling out cloth and papers and ropes of pearls just as the characters are about to spill out secrets, its surface appearing as unvarnished as the truths to come. Every character with a sexual life is dressed in some variation of off-white -- and looks cool, stylish and slightly soiled. Two ornate sofas are shrouded with crumpled, much used sheets: this is a world of ceaseless, unsatisfying copulation. Although the sides of the stage are heaped with the bric-a-brac of elegance -- candelabra, statuary, flowers -- the characters seem more at home with simple louvered screens...
...perrenial Boston showers held off just longenough not to hamper the fair, and organizers saidthey were pleased with the turnout despiteunseasonably cool temperatures...
...about cuts in real estate taxes in Arlington, Va. What rankled marchers was the epithet " '60s-Style Protest." The implication was clear. Aren't all those students with long hair and tie-dyed shirts just nostalgic for an era when drugs were cheap, sex was easy and it was cool to skip classes and shout slogans about our immoral government, parents and universities...
...cool encounter with at least one highly symbolic scorpion...
Fortunately I had borrowed a friend's Harley and was able to inch my way out of the tangle onto the immaculate median strip and soon was laying down tracks at a cool 90 mph. Like many things in Russia, the weather here is designed for one purpose only: to ward off potential invaders. But with the wind in my hair the heat was quite pleasant, and I felt a quiet sense of pride at the American's ability to improvise lanes of traffic...