Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before his arrival in France. The General Secretary took part in an extraordinary hour-long interview with three French questioners, which was broadcast in both the Soviet Union and France. The session revealed little that was new. In a 20- minute opening statement, Gorbachev, who cut a sober, dark-suited figure while seated behind an ornate Louis XV-style writing table in the Grand Kremlin Palace, struck the broad themes of his upcoming trip. He lauded recent Soviet arms-control initiatives and declared that "we are ready for other radical decisions." He even invoked De Gaulle as a source...
...outside the site one afternoon in September, four men and a woman in boots and rubbery white suits used a huge tread-mounted pump to dig out a 10-ft. plug of earth for testing by the EPA. Their gas masks hung nearby, just above the spot where a dark little stream flows from the toxic site under the fence and away into the forest. For now, the locals who are worried are waiting. They await the results of more soil and water tests, and the results of more precisely targeted health studies. Most of all, naturally, they await results...
...Resources is open 24 hours, and every day about a hundred trucks roll in and out. The vast site could be on Mars. Hills and canyons are denuded. The great dirt expanses where steel drums are buried dwarf the bulldozers and moon-suited workers. Dozens of deep pools of dark, still liquids, interconnected by a web of white pipes running uphill and down, pock the landscape. Oily sludge is stirred into the ground. A tanker truck squirts full blast into a waste pond. With its tidy system of interlacing roads and sharply etched contours, the dump is as neat...
When Maurice Sendak's dark fantasy Where the Wild Things Are first appeared between covers in 1963, some adults were disturbed by its unapologetic depiction of a child's raw emotions. In the deceptively gentle pastels of the slender 338-word book lurked naked monsters from the id, great horned behemoths who "gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws" to the book's naughty young hero, Max. One alarmed reviewer wrote that Sendak's volume should not be "left about where a sensitive child might find it to pore over in the twilight...
Cleopatra, who must have spent hours rimming her eyes with kohl each morning, would no doubt have loved the latest gift of cosmetic surgery: tattooing a thin dark line along the upper and lower lids to augment or replace conventional eyeliner. Since the operation was introduced in the U.S. a year ago, about 15,000 of her modern-day sisters have scurried off to ophthalmologists, dermatologists and plastic surgeons in unblinking pursuit of a fuss-free made-up look. The operation appeals especially to athletic women who do not want to worry about runny eyeliner and to those with poor...