Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the mugging happened, he found himself unready. He was plunging along a shadowy, midtown street well past midnight only a few hundred feet from a hotel where he often stayed when he worked late in the city. Suddenly, he was aware of a dark figure behind and to the left. Then, farther, off, exactly abreast of him but ten feet away near the buildings, a second figure appeared. That seemed odd, especially since he now noticed there was not another soul on the street. A taxi's brake lights winked in the distance, though, and the pool...
...Dark and stormy starts...
...example of dark intrigue which Kraus recalls from what seems to be a generous supply is the day he arrived and found that all the furniture save his desk, chair, and bookcase had been stolen in the middle of the night by a covetous fellow Senator. Having tracked the furniture, after receiving "at least six" stories about where it was and when it would be back. Kraus found that he couldn't simply retrieve it but would have to wait for the Senate President to reassert his authority. "Ultimately, they did have the confrontation," and the furniture was recovered...
...defendant was a dour ex-CIA agent with dark, glowering eyes and a tight-lipped G. Gordon Liddy demeanor. The other was a jovial Englishman who smokes Cuban cigars, drives a $60,000 custom-made Cadillac convertible and cracks jokes about himself as a "good ole boy" who "drills a little oil and raises a little beef on his 2,000-acre ranch near Dallas. Their personalities may differ, but the two millionaires have much in common. Both Edwin Wilson and Ian Smalley were on trial in Texas, in unrelated but remarkably comparable cases, charged with masterminding elaborate arms-smuggling...
...early morning. But when the ubiquitous David Frost, leading a group of investors and television veterans, was granted a morning franchise by the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) in December 1980, the BBC would be damned if it was going to be left in the dark, and it planned a rival show...