Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zaire's embattled capital, U.N. mediators worked feverishly for a last-minute peace deal and State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns urged Americans to leave, saying "the end game is approaching." U.S. troops were preparing to evacuate Americans from the capital. On Tuesday, Mobutu Sese Seko's government imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on the city's residents. Although officials said the restrictions were imposed to prevent looting and unrest among civilians, it is government soldiers who have ransacked other cities as Kabila's troops advanced. Fearing that the final battle is near, shops and stalls at the central market...
...same at No. 6. Down a set, however, junior Julia Kim elevated her game, amidst cheers of her teammates, to defeat her tiring opponent 2-6, 6-0, 6-2. This, in effect, assured victory for the Crimson, but the remaining matches were all played well into dusk...
...neighborhood just north of the Quad, where many Harvard professors and administrators make their home, is beautiful, with old houses and tree-lined streets that lend themselves to walks at dusk...
...indeed tank with some of its early in-house productions, like The Lemon Sisters with Diane Keaton and The Long Walk Home with Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg. It has been more successful with genre films birthed by Bob Weinstein's Dimension Films. Dimension plans sequels to Scream, From Dusk Till Dawn and Total Recall, originally made by another studio. Miramax, which traditionally had more pickups than homegrown product, is making more of its own films. The company is plunging into musicals, with movies of Chicago (possibly starring Madonna and Goldie Hawn) and Rent. Weinstein has vaguer plans...
...triggering a tough government crackdown. Thirteen years later, Deng ordered a far more brutal crackdown in April 1989 when students gathered in the vast public square to demand democratic reforms. On Thursday, the square was surprisingly calm and accessible to the public, reports Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz: "At dusk on Thursday, Tiananmen looked serene. The national flag was at half-mast, but everything else looked business as usual. People walked on the square, some taking pictures of each other. Nearer the Monument to the People's Heroes, a crew of workers were dismantling a wooden structure used as decorations...