Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Above all, Hart must contend with a system that was deliberately designed, by packing all primaries and caucuses into a short period between Feb. 20 and June 5, to prevent a dark-horse candidate from gradually building strength and parlaying a surprise showing into the nomination...
...Hampshire it is not. In Soviet elections there are no races among the candidates, no startling upsets in the making, no dark horses snorting in anticipation of last-minute runs. Ever since Lenin dissolved the freely elected Constituent Assembly in 1918, the U.S.S.R. has been ruled through interlocking hierarchies: the nonelected Communist Party Politburo and Central Committee, and the 1,500-member Supreme Soviet, which meets in full session only about 48 hours a year. Still, the Soviets insist on going through the motions of an election for this nominal parliament, if only to pay homage to the trappings...
...election time, but no dark horses run on this turf...
...vocal (Thriller). The sylphlike Prince of Pop even dominated the show's commercial breaks. His two eagerly awaited Pepsi-Cola ads made their debut during the 3½-hr. telecast. There was an unusual extra thrill for his tirelessly squealing fans when the soft-spoken superstar removed his dark glasses just once, explaining, "My friend Katharine Hepburn told me I should...
...comedy is a splendid treatise on the mentality and mechanics of official lying. The play would have had hilarious pertinence if it had played Washington during the last months of the Nixon Administration. But Fo is examining something more sinister than Watergate ever was. Fo is thinking of a dark, sanctioned thuggery-the kind that kills-and of an endless manipulation of the record, the facts of the past dissolving and reforming themselves into new shapes, like that cloud that Hamlet and Polonius discussed. Certain psychological and moral circumstances, Fo knows, bring about an irrevocable extinction of the truth...