Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This Friday at noon, Bush inherits the challenges Reagan leaves behind. Eight years ago to the day, as the hostages were leaving Iran, Reagan had the pleasure of lighting the White House Christmas tree a month late; Carter had left the tree dark as a symbolic acknowledgment of the crisis. In the years that followed, Reagan sent a great deal of welcome electricity into the nation's circuitry. Now Bush must figure out how to pay the power bill...
...real scruffy, low-tech charm. Springsteen quickly learned not only how to play to the camera but how to work with it as well, and you can see the moment it happened, in Brian De Palma's crafty 1984 rendering of an in-concert Dancing in the Dark. After that, Springsteen performed dazzlingly and acted well (most notably in John Sayles' splendid narrative worked around I'm on Fire). He may not be ready to hit the road to Hollywood, but these videos prove that between rock and music, Springsteen's on a two-way street...
Welcome to the North Country: From the outside it looks like a hardware store. From the inside it looks like a glow-in-the-dark banana field...
...Tomcat. "I know it sounds strange to the layman to say, 'He pointed his nose at me five times so I shot him,' " conceded a jet-fighter technician. "But it makes sense in aerial combat. Furthermore, if some guy aims a gun at you in a dark alley, you don't ask him whether it's loaded...
...suspects was described as 5'10" with "salt and pepper" colored hair, wearing a blue plaid wool jacket, a black hat and thickrimmed glasses. The other suspect was 5'6" and wearing dark clothing. Both were wearing blue jeans, ski masks and gloves, police reports said...