Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BELLS GONG in the dark. Sirens wail. Lights fade in on three corpses on a stage...
...then listen to the army officer's description of a massive maneuver to capture militants. We want to scream. The opposing side, the establishment, is too dark. No light seeps out, and there lies the final hole in the plot...
...truly glorious that a dark man like Pryor can make a dark world seem so bright. Let's hear it for the miracles of modern medicine...
...Another dark side of the sport this year has been the unkindness shown Georgetown's 7-ft. freshman center, Patrick Ewing, including a death threat. Although Ralph Sampson of Virginia is two years older and 4 in. taller, Ewing is the awesome figure in college basketball now. He figures to play Bill Russell to Sampson's Wilt Chamberlain in pro seasons ahead. But for the present, Ewing has been a focus of cynicism. Records have been broken this year for cruelty in the stands, and the normal expression on Ewing's face has been a bolt...
...break standing in lines rather than occupying the limited number of chairs and tables. In this way, the potential crisis of over-crowding in the dining area was averted. Unwilling to spend our precious lunch minutes standing in line, we walked to the nearest bakery, which sells white bread, dark bread, buns with raisins, buns without raisins, and spongy cookies sprinkled with a chalky white powder that tastes like Crest toothpaste...