Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first posting abroad, is not always under fire. He was showered with rose petals while covering the national elections in Pakistan that brought Benazir Bhutto to power. An Amherst College graduate who joined TIME as a reporter-researcher five years ago, he often can't avoid the dark side of his beat. In chronicling another election in Sri Lanka, Desmond spent days trying to make contact with violent Sinhalese rebels, whose campaign of murder frightened many voters away from the polls. Now back in New Delhi, Desmond will continue to keep TIME's eye on the disordered corners...
Underground. The word brings many unsavory adjectives to mind: dark, dank, clandestine, illegal. But in Japan the "underground" is becoming the new frontier and the best hope for solving one of the country's most intractable problems. With a population nearly half the size of the U.S.'s squeezed into an area no bigger than Montana, Japan has virtually no room left in its teeming cities. Developers have built towering skyscrapers and even artificial islands in the sea, but the space crunch keeps getting worse. Now some of Japan's largest construction companies think they have an answer: huge developments...
...Yeah, when you're in a village without electricity and it's night," Rosen says, "it gets pretty dark, it gets remarkably dark. There's a pretty big temptation to go to bed early...
...dark smoke of riots hanging over the Washington skyline -- smoke giddy with looting and circus, but at last completely rational: a sort of clarity of bitterness...
...Other equally euphonic names would waken the third eye: marijuana and lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. "The deep psychedelic experience is a death-rebirth flip," said Timothy Leary, the great snake-oil salesman of LSD. "There is no death . . . There is just off-on, in-out, start-stop, light-dark, flash- delay." Jailed in San Luis Obispo, Calif., on a marijuana charge, Leary escaped with the help of the Weathermen. The radical political group praised Leary, saying "LSD and grass will help us make a future world where it will be possible to live in peace." Indeed, the title...