Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife. "I felt my wheels going soft on me," Pace told his father later from a hospital bed. "I screamed to Helen to duck and grab the pillow because we're going down." Eileen Weldon of nearby Darien, driving alone in her car, sailed off into the dark river too and survived. The Paces, seriously injured, were snatched out of the water by a fisherman who had been asleep in his boat. "I heard all kinds of noises," said the rescuer, Billy Ebrech. "I heard screaming and yelling...
...dark business suits, white shirts and striped ties) and what to drink (no alcohol, even when off the job), and were urged in signs posted everywhere to THINK. Aspiring executives usually started out in sales and marketing and were transferred so frequently that they took to joking that IBM stood for "I've Been Moved." Observes Gideon Gartner, chairman of the Gartner Group, a computer-research firm: "If you understand the Marines, you can understand...
Kentucky Governor John Y. Brown, 49, the husband of TV Sportscaster Phyllis George, and a dark-horse presidential aspirant, is not a target of the probe. But the investigation is focused squarely on one of his best buddies. The Governor was obliged to answer questions about the fuss at a press conference last week. Though the FBI and the local U.S. Attorney will not comment officially, a main subject of the probe is James Lambert, who owns a local discothèque and whose home had been under surveillance by state and federal investigators...
Raymond Carver's A Small, Good Thing is precisely that: the progress of a couple recovering from the death of their son, rediscovering the savor of life at a bakery: "They swallowed the dark bread. It was like daylight under the fluorescent trays of light . . . and they did not think of leaving." Carver's tale is distinguished not only for its deceptively simple, ultimately haunting style, but for its history. The original version was published in a collection of stories two years ago. Carver might have let it languish there; instead he chose to rework the material, enriching...
...needs is some weaponry and a little training, and, as his new friend Sonny keeps trying to tell him, his head examined. This is particularly true since their lunch-counter assailant is bent on eliminating them as potential witnesses to his failed crime. He is, as it were, the dark side of the force that holds Donald in its grip, a small-time hood whose fantasy is that he is a big-time Mafia...