Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Major League baseball owners, meeting to choose a replacement for ousted baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, unanimously elect Harvard Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54. Steiner had been at best a dark-horse candidate, but the owners explain. "We winked someone who doesn't take any nonsense from labor. Dan's no softie...
...costing $742 an hour out of the Pentagon's budget) to bring Senators back for the vote and ensure them a quick flight home when it was over. Even Barry Goldwater, who was in an Arizona hospital recuperating from open-heart surgery, returned to Washington. "The sky was dark with Air Force planes bringing back Senators, kicking and screaming," Helms complained. Senators finally strangled the filibuster for good by an 81-to-5 vote, then passed the gas tax, 54 to 33. Baker, who had triumphed because of the reservoir of good will he had built up with both...
...DARK CRYSTAL Directed by Jim Benson and Frank Oz Screenplay by David Odell...
...perpetually pubescent voice, are elsewhere. This movie is serious: Jim Henson's foray into the art, dammit, of puppetry. With the help of Star Wars Producer Gary Kurtz, Faeries Artist Brian Froud, fellow Muppeteer Frank Oz and $26 million, Henson has devised a luxuriantly original fantasy world as dark as the magic crystal totem at its center. The setting is "another world, another time, in the Age of Wonder." A war between the benevolent Mystics (who look like shaggy-dog anteaters) and the evil Skeksis (pustular vultures) has obliterated all but a few of each. Under the Skeksis...
...began at 9:30 last Wednesday morning. A white 1979 Ford van with Florida plates drove past startled U.S. park police and stopped facing the main entrance of the Washington Monument. Emblazoned on its side was his message, #1 PRIORITY: BAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS. A man in a dark blue jumpsuit and a black motorcycle helmet with a visor covering his face emerged from the van, brandishing a menacing-looking black box. He announced that his van contained 1,000 Ibs. of TNT with which he threatened to reduce the monument to "a pile of rocks." He brusquely handed a park...