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Word: darkeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meditative tone in a slow, heavy journey over a dream landscape which makes a statement about the danger of fame. Moulding's attempt at thoughtfulness, however, falls flat in "Cynical Days," a song resembling a pre-teen poem of depression: "Another see-through scheme, people are shallow. The dark night's closing in, my dark thoughts follow." By forcing Partridge's voice to assume a lilting tone, "Cynical Days" leans more toward the laughable than the depressing...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: XTC Makes a Comeback | 3/10/1989 | See Source »

...joined Balanchine's New York City Ballet (today he is one of two ballet masters in chief). In 1944 he expanded his ballet Fancy Free into On the Town, which Abbott directed. Betty Comden, the show's coauthor, recalls the young Robbins: "He was wonderful looking, with his dark, dark burning eyes and his wiry, great figure -- a compact ball of energy. He still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerome Robbins: Peter Pan Flies Again | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...corridors of the neoclassical House of Trade Unions building were dark when Boris Yeltsin, 58, Moscow's former Communist Party leader, emerged from a conference room to speak to journalists and admirers waiting in the hall. Yeltsin looked weary but triumphant. "Boris Nikolayevich! How does it feel?" shouted a foreign reporter. "All of Moscow will vote!" Yeltsin beamed. "Can you imagine what that means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Heading into the Homestretch | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...open and empathetic as the Mather House meeting a few days before: if you felt uncomfortable displaying a large pink triangle, you were aiding and abetting the brainless homophobic thugs of the world. Silence, after all, equals death. Is it surprising that Mather has lived up to the dark prophesies that it was a house divided against itself...

Author: By Christopher A. Ford, | Title: Defeating the Purpose | 3/4/1989 | See Source »

...with his wife--the film didn't give any insight into either character. I didn't care whether or not Zach stops drinking, or whether he ever writes another book. The only thing Skin Deep really made me care about was...where can I get some glow-in-the dark condoms...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Blake Edwards' Skin Flick | 3/3/1989 | See Source »

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