Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five years ago when I was in Austria. Salzburg is both the Mozart and the precipitation capital of Europe: you'll see more umbrella shops on one street in Salzburg than in all of London. One afternoon it was raining katzen undhunde, so I bought myself a nice dark gray umbrella, only to attract some strange commands from passing natives. An English-speaking Austrian finally told me that I had bought a woman's umbrella. Since I couldn't tell the difference between the one he was carrying and the one I had bought, I asked him to explain...
...Jebsen, finding cheap places was easy, but not finding cheap and "half-way decent" places. Sometimes, he did make a mistake and "stay in dives." One particularly memorable "incredibly dark" dive was located in Barcelona, complete with a decrepit sink and "all sorts of bugs." recalled Jebsen...
...witness, who asked not to be named, said she spotted from her Leverett Tower window a dark shape moving in the river between the Weeks and Anderson bridges and immediately notified Harvard Police...
...dark shape moving around and first I thought it was a bird or a dog. But there was some doubt that maybe there could be someone there," she said. "To be safe I called the police...
...film begins with the voice of Gene Kelly, the chief narrator, over a dark screen, delivering a goofily pretentious lecture on the primal significance of dance. From there we go on a whirlwind tour of dance around the world and through the ages, bringing us to the present: Gene Kelly in a New York playground explaining the art of break-dancing. Unfortunately, Gene refuses to moon-walk or spin on his venerable head...