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Word: darkeness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bedroom is pitch dark. Two young brothers who share a crowded bed are busily not going to sleep. As one of them, Bill Cosby, describes it years later in a classic monologue, the night is an extended comedy-drama of horseplay, taunting and hand-to-hand combat: "I'm tellin' Dad, I'm tellin' Dad . . ." "I never hit you, I never hit you . . ." Each outburst is followed by a visit from their father, who thunders like Zeus, "If I hear any more laughing . . . I'm going to KILL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: He has a hot TV series, a new book - and a booming comedy empire | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

Years after Kate Lewis is kidnaped, Stephen, a successful children's book writer, recalls the instant and thinks he was vaguely aware of a figure in a dark coat, "the weakest suspicion brought to life by a desperate memory." The ache of Kate's loss is sustained throughout the book. She never returns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heartbeats the Child in Time | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...aspires to an elegant and disconcerting sort of T.S. Eliot modernism. He wants his graphics, he says, to be "visually simple but technically complex." A 1985 poster for a company that makes Buddhist religious articles, for instance, features a high-resolution close-up of a human bone, drenched in dark powder and standing all alone and upright against a white background. In small letters at the bottom is the Zen koan-like non- slogan: "I am an ancestor of the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Japan Is On The Go | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

Morrison's supple prose makes such desperation palpable. Beloved is full of vivid images, freshly rendered. Here is the runaway slave facing the Ohio River, which stands between her and liberation: "Sethe was looking at one mile of dark water, which would have to be split with one oar in a useless boat against a current dedicated to the Mississippi hundreds of miles away." Here are Sethe, Denver and Beloved enjoying a rare moment of pleasurable abandon on a frozen lake: "Their skirts flew like wings and their skin turned pewter in the cold and dying light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Something Terrible Happened BELOVED | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...dark side of the rampant housing inflation is that it is becoming more difficult for families to buy a new house if they do not already own a home that they can sell at a hefty price. The National Association of Home Builders estimates that nearly 70% of this year's buyers of new homes are trading up -- exchanging their old houses for better, more expensive ones. Thus first- time buyers account for only 30% of the market, down from 50% as recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What, No Pool In the Foyer? | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

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