Word: ghostly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with his wife, Linda. Opening with a note-perfect rendition of "Where The Spell Is Broken," he followed with Glow I Wanted To" from Hand Of Kindness and later "Withered And Died" from Bright Lights, two morbidly depressing songs about the frustration of helplessly watching your relationships disintegrate. The ghost of Linda hovered in every note Thompson sang or played...
...Crimson seems well on its way to four more wins and reaffirming its Eastern supremacy, but the tension that comes with being the front runner will be haunting Harvard like Blackkbeard's Ghost...
Only hours earlier, Khartoum (pop. 1.4 million) had been a ghost town. Doctors, lawyers, engineers were on strike. The airport and most stores were closed. President Gaafar Nimeiri, the wily strongman who had weathered a succession of coup attempts during an almost 16-year reign, was outside the country. Now, with Nimeiri stranded in Egypt on his way back from a visit to Washington, the people exulted at his overthrow by Suwar al Dahab and the Sudanese military. Some brandished the old yellow, green and blue-striped flag that had been replaced the year Nimeiri came to power; others ripped...
Clare wakes up unable to move her legs but with a new ability to see an ancestor's ghost, who visits her in the hospital and takes her on trips outside her body. Meanwhile, her level-headed parents, Hal and Helen, her nephew Davy and an as ortment of eccentric relatives and neighbors try to cook up cures for her paralysis. A temporary remedy comes in the force of--yes, Ben, overwhelmed by guilt, and then by Clare...
Modern history has drastically reversed the judgment that earlier generations made of the two composers. A poll taken in the mid-18th century would undoubtedly have found Handel the more admired, especially in England, where his German-accented ghost smothered native British music for more than a century. Bach was considered an outdated figure working in a dying contrapuntal medium of four-part harmony and abstruse fugues. "The old wig" his son Johann Christian is said to have called...