Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like a girl." A huge dude, his muscles rippling, speaks in a cool bass: "I got a pah" of $600 lizard shoes and I got silk shirts. I'm the Man, boy. I changes my clothes 15 times a day. Learn to hustle girls, and you can wear dark shades and sharkskin suits and ride a big white Caddy." Riff the horn player sniffs in disgust. "You've got to have dignity, boy, you be nothing without dignity. The only way to beat the Man is be going to school. Go back to school...
...from burgeoning unemployment and the anti-union policies of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government. At the last minute, the moderates also got an unexpected assist from 35 of Benn's fellow leftist M.P.s who do not like his political opportunism. They cast their votes for a dark-horse leftist on the first ballot, then abstained on the crucial second ballot to give Healey the edge. Next day the delegates delivered an even more serious blow to Benn's group. They dumped five members of his camp from the National Executive Committee, which plays the major role...
...dark-walnut-paneled Ottawa courtroom was packed with government lawyers, bureaucrats and a few curious law students last week as the nine black-robed justices of Canada's Supreme Court filed in to deliver a historic verdict on the country's future. When Chief Justice Bora Laskin began to read, there was a moment of confusion. A special sound system failed, and his words were barely audible to a nationwide television audience. But the impact of his message was clear enough. At the end of a five-month courtroom fight between the federal government of Canadian Prime Minister...
Benatar's music is a return to rock 'n' roll's straight-ahead roots. Her best songs-Promises in the Dark, Fire and Ice, Heartbreaker-are free of the fussy overproduction that characterized so much of '70s music. They have a big beat and hummable melodies-a throwback to the '60s. But what she purveys is not nostalgia, even though she includes in her act such songs as the Beatles' Helter Skelter-"That's what we heard when we were teething," she explains. "You can't escape...
...Berger is an imposing presence. His shaved pate-a daily ritual for 16 years-gleams above a dark turtleneck sweater. "Since nature had made me half bald," he explains, "I thought I'd go it one better...