Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bitter residue. Patrick Buchanan, then a White House aide, recalls asking Nixon what he would have done had the court gone against him. The President's angry response: "I was going to fire it anyway." That, perhaps, was a signal of troubles to come in Watergate, of Nixon's dark impulses to force the system to bend to his will...
...nostalgia surrounding Rogers-Astaire tends to bleach out other partners. But if Rita Hayworth, Cyd Charisse and Lucille Bremer melted more quickly into his arms, they did so with unsurpassed lyricism. Indeed, it is with Charisse during the Dancing in the Dark sequence of The Band Wagon that he attained romantic apotheosis. That film brought him to another kind of culmination. He always liked to shed his top hat, white tie and tails and make magic with homely props -- a golf club, a hat rack, a handful of firecrackers. In Band Wagon, glum and lonesome, he entered an amusement arcade...
...have made their final appearance at the Chatterbox Cafe, and Keillor has carried on shamelessly. "I'm going away, for to stay a little while," he has sung, "but I'm coming back, if I go ten thousand miles." Does he mean it? The ON THE AIR sign turns dark, and Keillor bows himself offstage. Goodbye, love...
Such planets, if they exist, are too small and dark to be detected directly. For six years the Canadians have monitored 16 stars from an observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, looking for the distinctive wobbling motion caused by the gravitational pull of nearby orbiting bodies. Epsilon Eridani, among several others, shows the telltale wobbles...
...warmly, "I never expected to meet a chief of the CIA." It was one of those poignant moments that sometimes occur in the tortured destinies of the superpowers. Archadversaries come together and find their instincts are to like each other, then politics and duty send them off into the dark night to battle again. Author John le Carre could not have written it better: Spymaster George Smiley goes to Moscow and feels the great sadness of mankind's grim contention...