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Word: darkeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dream, alas, was never more than just that--a dream. But The Who were always an impossible-to-ignore reality. In concert, Pete and the boys for years stood unsurpassed. Typically, the auditorium would go dark just as the first, hesitant synthesizer notes of "Baba O'Riley" rang out. Then power guitar chords and lights came simultaneously, and everyone would see Townshend bashing away frantically at his Gibson SG. Finally, Daltrey would swagger in from stage right, throwing his mike toward the audience in ever increasing arcs only to grab it at the very last possible second and sing from...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: A Triumphant Return | 10/2/1982 | See Source »

...even feel sale walking across the street" after dark. Beth F. landoli, a Wellesley sophomore, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Voice Concern Over Third Rape at Babson College | 10/1/1982 | See Source »

...picket fence separating your lawns that he had draped on his chunky haunches a pair of underwear tattooed with the initials of some shrewd Frenchman, you would almost certainly be reduced to uncontrollable laughter. You would never go to neighborhood barbecues, and you would keep your children in after dark...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Semper Ubi Sub Ubi | 9/28/1982 | See Source »

...celebrity moral of too much work, too many indulgences, too little time. For those moviegoers who had seen the Bavarian-born director at film festivals or spotted him in his own pictures, his death, impossible to imagine, became in retrospect easy to predict. Chronically scraggly and overweight, encased in dark glasses and neck-to-ankle black leather, skulkingly showboating his eminence, he looked the very model of a pestilential dandy, a sure bet for early burnout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Master Without Masterpieces Andres Segovia: 1893-1987 | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...contrast to Plato's claim for the social value of education, a quite different idea of intellectual purposes was propounded by the Renaissance humanists. Intoxicated with their rediscovery of the classical learning that was thought to have disappeared during the Dark Ages, they argued that the imparting of knowledge needs no justification-religious, social, economic or political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Five Ways to Wisdom | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

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