Word: fire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nightmare, the dark side of the force set free in the '60s. The paeans to the generation's liberties echo dolorously, as Love has truly become as strong as Death. "Sometimes," ( Eric Clapton said recently, "you need to hear some harmonic softeners, some quiet, to kind of quench the fire and calm yourself." But the fire cannot be fully extinguished. Though they abhor its destructiveness, those who lived through 1968 are still hooked on the energy, prisoners of their old freedoms. They may now feel safe, but they are sorry. For they were born, born to be wild...
...heard the plane as it was coming down," said Skeet Jackson. "Engines were backfiring and missing. It curved off to the left and crashed. And the I saw the ball of smoke and fire...
With that, the Bastille exploded into the biggest uproar since a mob stormed the fortress prison to begin the French Revolution of 1789. Some of the brightest stars in the world of music noisily opened fire in support of Barenboim. Jessye Norman, the stately Georgia-born soprano, said she would "reconsider" whether to sing in the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Revolution. Patrice Chereau, who was to stage a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni on opening night a year from now, said he considered his contract "annulled by this event." Conductor-composer Pierre Boulez resigned...
...Reagan came to work he would offer his assessment of the weather, determined by how clearly he could see Jefferson in the Potomac River Valley. In the finale, Reagan loitered more than ever in his private study next to the Truman Balcony, often with Nancy beside him and a fire burning in the fireplace. Once, when an aide found him in reverie at the study's window, he asked the President, "What are you thinking about?" Reagan turned around, smiled and replied, "Everything...
...slash the country's 1,580% inflation rate and to attack the $66 billion national debt, the plan will freeze prices, abolish automatic wage hikes and devalue the Brazilian cruzado by 16.4% in relation to the dollar. The government will close six out of 27 ministries, and promises to fire 60,000 employees. Brazil is temporarily suspending any further debt-for- equity swaps with foreign banks and refuses to rule out a new moratorium on payments toward its $115 billion foreign debt...