Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have the same perspective on issues like sex discrimination, reproductive rights or the issues that affect women's rights directly." Declared former Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, a black lawyer: "I congratulate the President. The Supreme Court was the last bastion of the male: a stale dark room that needed to be cracked open. I don't know the lady, but if she's a good lawyer and believes in the Constitution, she'll be all right...
...ships Juno and Avos waited, he set out to woo the 16-year-old beauty. For his seduction scene, Bolshoi Ballet Choreographer Vladimir Vasiliev designed a pas de deux that was conspicuously erotic by stuffy Soviet standards. Yelena Shanina (Concha), a Goldie Hawn lookalike, and Nikolai Karachentsev (Rezanov), a dark, dour figure, embraced on the brightly lit, transparent Plexiglas stage. When the nightgown-clad Concha wrapped her legs around Rezanov, he fell avidly upon her. The house lights darkened as the moan of the electronic strings reached a crescendo...
...edges of the crowd--for 500 have come to watch--bodybuilders no longer teenage stand, moving in and out of the 90-degree sun and the dark, cooler, canvas covered hall. They all weat T-shirts bearing the name of their gym; they all wear their hair medium-length and lacquered; they all wear disinterested expressions or slight scowls; and they don't talk much to each other, or the short, breasty women beside them...
...peaks and deep-cut valleys of Salzburg helped stimulate one of the world's great music festivals. The jagged rise of Edinburgh Castle, at the summit of a hill that bursts up from the city, served as a symbol of its remarkable theater festival. In New Mexico, the dark Sangre de Cristo mountains, falling away to boundless plains, have inspired two generations of transplanted New Yorkers to envision a summertime American Salzburg or Edinburgh in 371-year-old Santa...
...career-long addiction to anger. The riches come from his Pink Panther films and "10. "The anger reached nearly self-destructive heights in the early '70s when, after making a string of hits (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses, A Shot in the Dark), he suffered an equal number of flops (Darling Lili, Wild Rovers, The Carey Treatment). These pictures, he insists, were sabotaged from conception to cutting room by studio production chiefs: Robert Evans, of Paramount, where Lili was made, and James Aubrey, of MGM, which financed the others...