Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after Dole delivered a speech touching on a similar theme in California, Clinton used an appearance before the New Orleans Church of God in Christ to embrace the idea of curfews as a way to protect children and prevent them from getting involved in criminal activity. In touting the "dusk to dawn" curfew in New Orleans, Clinton said curfews are needed to "bring more order and structure and discipline" to young people's lives. The New Orleans curfew is credited with reducing crime in the city by 27 percent and reducing auto theft by 42 percent. Clinton praised curfews...
...leading man with enough juice to light up the big screen, or does he just play one on TV? A lot is riding on E.R. star GEORGE CLOONEY's first foray into the minefield of Hollywood romantic comedy. (One false move and he may be making From Dusk to Dawn vampire sequels from here to eternity.) One Fine Day, due out later this year, pairs the roguishly charming newcomer with that gleaming icon of glamour MICHELLE PFEIFFER. Clooney plays an Oscar Madison-like newspaper columnist and single father; Pfeiffer is an architect and single mother. They meet and immediately fall...
...become increasingly difficult to produce. What does it mean to produce alternative comedy when mainstream pop culture has become so self-mocking? When Miller Lite commercials do smart send-ups of kung fu movies, when sitcoms like Ned and Stacey make jokes about sitcoms like Mr. Belvedere, when From Dusk Till Dawn wears its crumminess as a badge of honor? Moreover, there is the difficulty of producing intelligent satire in a world in which reality at times resembles a series of lame celebrity-sketch conceits--Sonny Bono in Congress, O.J. Simpson peddling testimony on video that he never gave...
...reset a subject's biological clock according to light exposure, in a process called "entrainment," the lights in the suite can be raised to an intensity of 10,000 lux, which is about the intensity of sunlight at dawn or dusk...
...candles are lit in the winter dusk, and we look at one another, the old faces and some new ones, and silently toast the Good Life, which is here before us. Enjoy the animal fats and to hell with apologies. No need to defend our opinions or pretend to be young and brilliant. We still have our faculties, and the food still tastes good...