Word: darken
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sitcom Happy Family, makeup artist Patty Bunch continuously applies light moisturizers with anti-shine creams to actress Christine Baranski's face and lights the area around her eyes to make sure they don't look too deep-set. The series' hair stylist had to darken veteran actor John Larroquette's graying hair because it was glaring white in high definition before a lighting solution was found...
...tempting to think there are two gay Americas, one frightened and one fabulous, a merely gay America and a fully Queer America. An America where the gay bars darken their windows to hide ashamed patrons, and an America where straight people stand in line to get into gay clubs. An America where the June 26 Supreme Court decision legalizing sodomy had more than symbolic consequences, since gay sex was still a crime in 13 states. And an America where instead of arresting gays, the police help clear the streets every June for pride parades, which of course include contingents...
...among smaller states by again thumbing their noses at E.U. rules designed to keep state spending in line. In the shadow of the Swedish euro vote, the prospects for coming referendums on the controversial new E.U. constitution - which at least six countries could put to the vote - seemed to darken. If a single country votes no, the new constitution is dead. As the E.U. pursues closer integration, its member states are lining up on either side of two great divides. The first is the euro; after the new members join next May, there will be 12 countries inside the zone...
...today's world, women have achieved as much as, or more than, men in many fields of endeavor. History shows that there have been many women who ruled nations better than men. Chinese women are the light of the country and the lamp of the family. When we darken the lives of women, we are darkening our own families and country. Let us love, respect and educate them. Anthony Nayagam Bangalore, India...
...beheaded a week after the siege. The three remaining hostages of Abu Sayyaf - two of them American - could also end up paying with their lives. Then there are those who live in Lamitan, where 70% of the people are below the poverty line and where children's faces darken when they hear mention of Abu Sayyaf. Better off are the seven youngsters, the eldest 16, recently released by Abu Sayyaf after spending two years carrying bullets and scouting for them. And, perversely, a mother who saw her husband and brother killed during a rebel raid, but saved...