Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...march on Santa Barbara on Labor Day with thousands of homeless people, the city council relented. Overnight sleeping will soon be permitted in certain designated public areas, including undeveloped, city-owned lots, and cars parked on city streets. After next week, however, the parks will be closed after dark...
Above all, Lauren is the boss. He huddles for most of the day with fashion assistants and corporate colleagues, at one moment expostulating before a trio of dark-suited subordinates and the next pondering an advertising display among a group of young designers clad in a palette of pale blue variations on his own favorite garb. Lauren pays his employees well and rewards loyalty, but he can be a blunt taskmaster. "He is absolutely terrible about hiding his feelings," says Buffy Birrittella, Polo/Ralph Lauren's vice president for advertising and communications. In an industry notorious for its creative egos, Lauren...
...easier to see to the bottom of the brook than to the dark cold place in the psyche where that pistol came to rest. Ernest Hemingway's books are easier to know, and love, than his life. He wrote, at his early best, a prose of powerful and brilliant simplicity. But his character was not simple. In one of his stories, he wrote: "The most complicated subject that I know, since I am a man, is a man's life." The most complicated subject that he knew was Ernest Hemingway...
With his incisive mind, infighting skills and intense dedication to a hard- line ideology, Perle, 44, has emerged as the most influential Assistant Cabinet Secretary in 25 years. His pessimistic approach to arms control, along with a swarthy complexion punctuated by the dark circles of his eyes, has earned him the nickname Prince of Darkness. He can be haughty, yet in person he hardly fits the role of dark prince: he has a soft voice, sophisticated Francophile tastes and a willingness to work amiably with bureaucratic colleagues while remaining fiercely loyal to his beliefs...
...estimates that it spent between $10 and $15 to reach each residential customer in the election, more than three times the cost for AT&T. Says Charles Skibo, president of US Sprint: "AT&T had the data to sharpshoot and pick off select targets. We were shooting in the dark with a scatter...