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...voice works its way every place, any time. Over a car radio at high noon in the Mojave. On a cassette recorder during a long day at the beach. No matter how early the hour or how bright the glare. When Smokey Robinson comes on, the shades are drawn and lights go down all over the world...
...exercises were much as usual. Some were tiresome, others I could not hear. The whole thing is a tax upon the patience of all excepting such as have relations present.... The glory of former days so far as it consisted of bustle, show and glare has departed, perhaps in truth there is no very great loss by the change." --Charles Francis Adams, Class of 1810, commenting on Commencement circa...
Later the protesters stood and chanted in the glare of t.v. lights outside the entrace to Saturday's Nashua Republican debate, protesting both the draft and nuclear power...
...four-wheel-drive Toyota bucked and rattled over a rutted road, past a desolate landscape of brick red clay and wind-sculpted termite hills, it was hard to imagine how anyone could live in this barren wasteland. Even tough acacia trees wither and die in the unceasing glare of the Ogaden's hostile sun. Suddenly the car rumbled to a stop. "Look over there," said the guide, Mohamed Heeban, gesturing toward a clump of thornbushes along the bank of a dried-up stream. "That is Karraro, the city under the trees...
Security. The Olympic Village for the 1980 Winter Games looks like a prison, and when the athletes leave, that is precisely what it will become. At night, lights on tall poles glare down on the double 12-ft.-high fences. To gain entry, visitors must have proper credentials bearing their photographs and an authorization code. New York State troopers guard the road leading to the village administration building, where more policemen watch over a pair of airport metal detectors and X-ray machines. Specially trained dogs even sniff the luggage of arriving athletes for bombs. Says Britain's Paul...