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While alarmed by those trends, most analysts see a glimmer of hope in the grim statistics...
Their more recent offerings, including international dance favorite "Blue Monday," phased out even the glimmer of emotion that made "Temptation" so powerful. "Blue Monday," with its stark heartbeat-like electronic drums, was a disturbing song because it was so mechanical, so inhuman, but, nonetheless, catchy. The lyrics and occasional synthesizer effects were but minor distractions from that thumping beat...
...painting is a link between Caravaggio's shadow-theater and, through Salvator Rosa, the world of 19th century romanticism. It shows a young man in half-armor lying stiff and composed on the floor of a cave (some mountain charnel-house, perhaps) surrounded by rainy twilight and the glimmer of bones, with a curl of smoke still issuing from an extinguished votive lamp. A vanitas? A more personal lamentation? Impossible to say; yet there is more real feeling in this restrained image than in many a square yard of post-Caravaggian bombast...
...came under fire from the White House last summer when he and Paul Nitze, the INF negotiator whom Rostow supervised, recommended that the U.S. pursue an informal proposal that Nitze had discussed with Yuli Kvitsinsky, the Soviet INF negotiator at Geneva. As one Administration official recalls, it offered "the glimmer of a damned good outcome." William Clark, Reagan's National Security Adviser, criticized both Rostow and Nitze for not staying in closer contact with the White House. Nitze responded with a question, "How can you negotiate with a guy if you can't talk to him?" After...
...answer has always been the same, "Until you find her body, there is at least a glimmer of hope...