Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...typically quiet Scandinavian night for the scattered residents of the Blekinge archipelago on Sweden's southeast coast. Suddenly their rustic peace was shattered by something that went bump in the dark. "First we heard a gigantic crunch," recalls one resident of the 60-is-land group. "There was a lot of rumbling. The whole island shook." Some of the hardy islanders heard the sounds of a diesel engine racing and blamed the whole incident on Swedish naval maneuvers. The community went back to sleep...
Then in early October, some eight months after an article on the island had appeared in the London Sunday Times, the strange protest campaign began. Several British newspapers and TV and radio stations received typed statements that bore the heading OPERATION DARK HARVEST.The message demanded that the government solve the problem of the island's contamination by burying the bacilli beneath thick layers of reinforced concrete, sand and other materials, or by removing the soil completely and burying it elsewhere, or by soaking the island in potassium permanganate solution, or by raising "the temperature of the island to about...
...place out of sleep or to make "Pasadena" or a house like a nest, to make love. This is a long American poem remarkable in that it stays completely in the world of ordinary consciousness, of history and fact and daily life. It does not wander into myth, the dark of nature, or sexuality, fun as that might be to read. The passage about lovemaking is about sex manuals--technics--which is just another symptom of anxiety and planning ahead. These too are "as free of people as a garden is, or as a plan...
...first meeting with Westerners since assuming the party leadership, Jaruzelski promised resolute action during a 45-min. discussion with a group of TIME editors and businessmen. Dressed in an olive-drab uniform, and wearing the dark-tinted glasses he needs because of a chronic eye inflammation, Jaruzelski joked briefly about the fact that he was First Secretary of the party, Premier, Defense Minister and general of the army, but received "only one salary-and much smaller than that of the President...
...companies, arbitration will seem like nothing so much as a long dark tunnel that might actually lead nowhere. Arguing cases before the tribunal will eat up hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. The most optimistic estimates are that the panel will still be sitting in 1985. Worst of all, no one expects that the $1 billion settlement account will come close to covering the legitimate claims for compensation. Though Iran has promised to replenish the fund, that too remains in doubt. Thus, the companies face the prospect of protracted litigation with only partial return, or none...