Word: dens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are 450 different special effects, including snowfalls (plastic) and a giant half-moon with glowing nose and spoon (a coke joke). While Studio 54 is fast, loud and frenzied, the month-old New York New York (membership $150) is cool and comparatively low decibel. Borrowing from the Hay den Planetarium, light specialists have devised a laser-beam system that throws streamers of color over the dancers and peppers the floor with shards of light. At one moment, the crowd may be enveloped by a mixture of fog and Faberge; at another, clouds of red smoke billow from the floor...
There was little rejoicing by the Dutch government. Looking somber and tired, Prime Minister Joop den Uyl appeared on television to explain that "violence proved necessary to put an end to the hostage seizure" because weeks of negotiations with the hijackers had reached an impasse. Justice Minister Andreas van Agt, who with the prime Minister headed the crisis team dealing with the terrorists, made his own appeal for understanding of the difficult decision. "I beseech you to believe there was no other way," he said at a press conference. "We tried everything-every path of dialogue that there might...
...From the beginning," Prime Minister Den Uyl explained, "we made it clear there was no question of the hostages being transported somewhere else. And the demand for safe conduct, if granted, is an invitation to renewed blackmail actions." As for the political demands, Den Uyl said, "we have seen from earlier experience in the relationship between the Dutch society and the Moluccan community that the awakening of illusions, the making of concessions, punishes itself, leading to bitterness and disappointment...
Last week's well-coordinated assaults on the train and the Bovensmilde school took place two days before a national election in which the principal contestants were Prime Minister loop den Uyl's Socialists and Justice Minister Andreas Van Agt's Christian Democrats. The Moluccans apparently hoped to force the candidates into making concessions to them in order to win voter approval. Despite the country's grim mood, the record 87% of the voters who turned out made decisions on broader issues; they gave Den Uyl's party 53 seats in the new 150-member...
Have you seen that awful den of hellish infamy-with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes? Have you felt the Vampire's lips upon your throat...