Word: dark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that was last year. Fast on the heels of Mark McGwire and Ken Griffey Jr., Sosa is the dark-horse candidate to shatter the single-season record for home runs. Thanks to a spectacular--some might say freaky--June in which he popped 20 home runs, a major league record, the Dominican native showed that he is finally harnessing his impulsiveness. As of Saturday, he had racked up 36 homers, just six behind leader McGwire. Sosa's batting record of .319 this season is a full .57 points higher than his career average...
...knew that was going to be the first question. Right now my preference is Betty Crocker dark double chocolate...
...pair need all their wit to thwart the relentlessly scheming Don Rafael. A blackguard worthy of the two Zorros' steel, he's richly realized by Stuart Wilson as a sort of Darth Vader of romance, helplessly embracing its dark side. Long ago he killed Diego's wife, with whom he was in love, and then abducted their daughter to raise as his own. Played in adulthood by the ravishingly beautiful and wonderfully spirited Catherine Zeta- Jones, she is, of course, destined to find both her true father and her true love behind one Zorro mask or another...
...thoughtful material. She brought on some conspicuously gifted writers, including David Remnick, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Anthony Lane and Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin). And the photographs that caused so much uproar when she first dropped them in, those big gray boulders of portraiture, hit the pages like dark meteors. Attention must be paid...
...your name, you?d better have taken a bullet. Otherwise something?s rotten in the state of the Union. Oh, we don?t blame you, Larry Cockell -? the fault for the current ugliness lies with either Starr or Clinton, and most likely both. We like our presidential protectors tall, dark and inscrutable, preferably with mirrored sunglasses. With an earpiece and a little cord that disappears down past a starched collar. With nothing to say to us. Sure, we?ve giggled at you from time to time, but never to your face. You?re too scary, a shade less than human...