Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeds grew above the windowsills of abandoned houses. The town of Pripyat, once home to some 50,000 workers, may never be resettled. Nearby, 27 villages are still so heavily contaminated that workers have abandoned cleanup efforts. Signs warned against driving on road shoulders, which could stir up radioactive dust, and army trucks made up most of the traffic on two-lane roads that once were thoroughfares to markets...
...will remember a time, only ten or twelve years ago, when the American art world decided that Painting Was Dead. Henceforth the future would belong to videotapes, "propositions," "events" and bits of string on the gallery floor. The exequies over the body were as solemn as they were premature; dust devils of argument spun through art magazines, scattering the ashes. Though no prophecy could have proved less correct -- painting has filled the horizon of American art in the '80s, almost to the point of monopoly -- a young artist needed cussedness and conviction to reject the tribal wisdom...
...flurry of headline-grabbing libel cases over the past several years, most followed by protracted legal preliminaries, prompted fears about the effectiveness of the First Amendment. Now that the dust has settled, however, it seems clear that the news media have prevailed, at least in the court of law. While many news organizations have lost their first-round libel verdicts, the media have won most major cases that went through the full appellate process. Moreover, while juries have rendered more than 30 verdicts in excess of $1 million since 1980, according to the Libel Defense Resource Center, not one judgment...
Alnilam is, as its dust jacket proclaims, a "novel by the author of Deliverance," the 1970 best seller that launched Dickey out of poetry circles and into the celebrity void. He was good, fast-drying copy. Big and burly as a stereotypical Southern sheriff (a role he played in the movie of Deliverance), he strummed a guitar, partied hard and shot at deer with a bow and arrow. His collection of poems, Buckdancer's Choice, won a 1966 National Book Award, but he was also a member of the warrior class, having flown Black Widow night fighters against the Japanese...
...Pure country went down for several years," Travis observes, and his recent success has done a lot to pick it up and dust it off. His previous album, Storms of Life, has sold 1.3 million copies so far (the new album, out a month and a half, has already sold more than half that). It has corralled him four awards from the Academy of Country Music, including best single and best album, and four more from last week's Music City News Awards. "Boy," he recalls, still wondering a little at the memory, "when the Academy announced | male vocalist...