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Word: darkeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room on the right they found the leader of the terrorist cell, Antonio Savasta, 27, standing next to a pup tent pitched in the middle of the room. Inside the tent, chained to a cot, was a shoeless, bearded man in a dark blue jogging suit. Savasta was holding a silencer-equipped pistol to the man's head. Before Savasta could pull the trigger, however, a commando hit him from behind with the butt of his machine gun and knocked him to the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Police! Marvelous! | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...Haig-Gromyko confrontation lasted for eight hours, twice the amount of time originally scheduled. The two men, accompanied only by their interpreters, did in fact speak extensively of Poland, but as Haig said later, "Poland cast a long, dark shadow over all the discussions involving East-West relations." The U.S. believes that there must inevitably be a link between the state of affairs in Poland and Soviet behavior in other parts of the world (see following story). Thus, in the U.S. view, the Polish situation makes it impossible to announce the beginning of Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Is Anyone Out There Listening? | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...strong president in two decades only makes us miss the Kennedys more. But portraying social issues and confronting them are two different things, and no one in Four Friends seems to know what they're about. Four Friends is particularly disappointing since Penn also directed Alice's Restaurant, the dark farce widely acknowledged as one of the finest "sixties films...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: The Sixties Reinvented | 2/4/1982 | See Source »

...event, but it's a bit of a strain to imagine her bringing along her demind-boyfriend to be skewered by Norman's verbal parries. The dentist (Debney Coleman), incidentally, is the real McCoy; he wears a light blue cotton Suit, a white and blue plaid short and a dark solid tie. Now that is a dentist. What requires a great leap of faith is understanding why Chelsea wants to unload the dentist's 13-year-old son on Ethel and the old bastard for a month while she and the dentist traipse around Europe. But skepticism never got anyone...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: On Golden Caramel | 2/4/1982 | See Source »

...people united in Poland got their united ass kicked: the people united in EI Salvador, and 13,000 a year get shot separately Even it a lot more people in a lot more places unite, the chances are not so good. Original sin, mushroom cloud, freezing in the dark when the oil runs out--name your poison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/3/1982 | See Source »

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