Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coated with chocolate, caramel and peanuts. Price: $2.99 for a box of six. Even more deadly combinations come from Steve's Homemade Outrageous Ice Cream Things of Lindenhurst, N.Y. One kind of Thing consists of a vanilla ice-cream bar containing pieces of Heath toffee candy and dipped in dark chocolate. A single bar sells for about...
...fulfilled by their evenings together swapping naughty secrets. And when this comely sorority is restless, Eastwick suffers, with plagues of sudden storms and cherry pits. The women are witches, you see. And now they dare to pray for the perfect man to save them from rural rectitude: "a tall, dark prince traveling under a curse." Worse luck for the witches, they...
They touched off a cannon about noon and fired the crematorium, sending dark smoke into the clean blue sky. "He would have loved this," said one of the directors from Halifax. When the flames burned low, there were rainbows round . the sun, and the clouds the smoke had formed were multicolored. A student said she wouldn't be surprised if they had put chemicals on the fire...
...faced with a high-priced lawyer in a three-piece suit who is threatening money damages." In the view of the real estate industry, the court's ruling tilts toward accountability. Explains Gus Bauman, litigation counsel for the National Association of Home Builders: "If a policeman walks up a dark alley with his gun drawn and wrongly shoots somebody, the city can be taken to court for damages. Why not zoning commissioners...
...little President," a bellicose figure of fun with a falsetto voice, a habit of clicking his "tombstone teeth" and laughing like a "frenzied watchdog." These denigrations largely fall flat. In Burr, Vidal turned a villain into a hero, suggesting that another truth could be found on the dark side of legend; here the issue of Roosevelt's buffoonery hardly matters, since he is portrayed as simply following in the revered McKinley's footsteps...