Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Balthus's quintessential (and least seen) painting of that sort, The Guitar Lesson, is not in the show. But others, hardly less remarkable, are. Among them is The Room, 1952-54, whose teen-age girl sprawls in a posture of utter abandon, like a sunbather but in a dark room, while a malicious-looking dwarf yanks back the curtain to flood her body with light...
...year-old boy with tousled blond hair and dark blue eyes sprints down hallways, pieces a puzzle, counts on his fingers and chats about ghosts. All quite normal in most children, but to Jimmy Tontlewicz these activities represent hard-won victories. On Jan. 15, while sledding with his father, Jimmy plunged into the icy waters of Lake Michigan. When rescuers pulled him out, he had been submerged for at least 20 minutes and had no discernible heartbeat, pulse or breathing. In Chicago last week doctors said Jimmy is progressing so well that they hope to send him home this month...
...began with a shot in the dark. Early one morning in late February, John Chin, a New York City board of education employee, was arrested after allegedly firing a gun through a Manhattan neighbor's window. In a search of Chin's apartment, police found drugs, a gun and two uncashed checks, totaling about $10,000, made out to Chin by Anthony Alvarado, 41, the city's popular, innovative chancellor of public schools. They also found the title to the chancellor's 1980 Toyota...
...dark of night, strikingly like a thief, the Baltimore Colts loaded up the horseshoe helmets last week and quietly moved to Indianapolis. Robert Irsay, 61, a Skokie, Ill., contractor who acquired the 31-year-old team in 1972, had been the most eligible carpetbagger in the National Football League since franchise free agency was tested in court by the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders three years ago. Romanced by Phoenix, Jacksonville, Memphis and New York, Irsay finally succumbed to a domed stadium, an inexpensive practice facility and a cheap loan...
Covello described the suspect as a Black male with a medium build and short afro, approximately 30 years old, wearing and olive green jacket and olive green shirt with dark pants...