Word: glimmering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probation are less likely to commit crimes again than those placed on traditional probation or sent to prison. Joan Petersilia, a Rand Corp. researcher, says the recidivism rate of such offenders is impressively low, "usually less than 20%." And many keep their jobs, she adds. "That's the real glimmer of hope -- that in the long run these people will become functioning members of the community...
...only apparent glimmer of progress, Shevardnadze agreed to consider a proposal by Shultz that U.S. and Soviet experts meet when regular U.S.-Soviet arms control negotiations in Geneva are in recess...
...point, while courting the child's mother, the enchanter sees a glimmer of his fate "silently indicated to him by what looked like a strange naill finger." Sometimes remote, sometimes sinister, sometimes humorous, these imagist puzzles are strangely evocative, as well as tantalizing to decipher...
...frustrated defector excitedly explained that he had an important matter to discuss with the Ambassador or the CIA. The embassy's consul, hearing the ruckus, came out to investigate. The man, now desperate, flashed his Soviet passport. No reaction. Next, he took out his military identification card. A glimmer of comprehension. The consul copied the Cyrillic letters and sent them upstairs to the CIA station chief. Minutes passed. No response. The distraught man exclaimed that he would be shot if they did not do something quickly. Then a CIA man, curious about the fuss, took one look at the card...
These days Sondheim has disappointingly little competition. For the past two years--since Sunday in the Park--the New York Drama Critics Circle has not deemed any musical worthy of an award. Next season promises a resurgence, with perhaps the brightest glimmer on the horizon Sondheim's own Into the Woods, devised with his Sunday in the Park partner, James Lapine. Its premise is that the stories of Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and other fairy-tale figures all take place on the same day in the same forest, practically within bumping distance. The show...