Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas plains, withering, parching and shrinking land, crops, rivers, lakes, animals and people. Federal emergencies have been declared in 30 states. Grain farmers in the upper Midwest may lose nearly three-quarters of their crops. There is more trouble to come if the rains don't. On Friday dark storm clouds scudded across the skies over parts of Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, but the squalls soon gave way to the familiar empty, mocking skies...
This biographer can hardly be blamed for the perverse effects of the Salinger case, i.e., the ability of an author who has not published a word since 1965 to squelch other words well into the litigious future. Nor is it Donaldson's fault that Susan Cheever's Home Before Dark scooped him by revealing her father's bisexuality. These handicaps are difficult but not necessarily ruinous. Unfortunately, John Cheever, which is certain to command wide attention because of its subject's fame, displays a range of self- inflicted weaknesses...
...with a tip from an unidentified civilian employee of the Navy, and has concentrated heavily on that branch. But the Naval Investigative Service evidently did not warn Lehman (who resigned last year) that the probe was under way. Even Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was kept in the dark and, until last week, so was Carlucci. No one at the White House was informed until shortly before the matter became public...
...books chronicle the tragic life and times of Anchorwoman Jessica Savitch. -- Columnist Carl Rowan takes a shot in the dark...
...reached the top only to be dismissed as a bimbo," Blair writes. But with film and television rights to both biographies already snapped up, Savitch is sure to be remembered as the woman who brought the dark side of Hollywood to broadcast...