Word: glow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sociologist of religion Emile Durkheim once said that the contrast between the sacred and the profane is the widest and deepest of all contrasts that the human mind can make. In retrospect, in the churchier precincts of the memory, the election of 1960 has, for some, a numinous glow. The election was the prologue to everything that happened after. It was the American politics before the fall. Its protagonists went on to their high, dramatic fates. Perhaps part of the magic of that race is that we know the tale to its dramatic completion...
...mile away. But in a TV era, Dukakis was glimpsed by fewer than a thousand chosen Toledo residents during his four hours in the city. Local television was his true target. While the early- evening news stressed Dukakis' planned message ("I care about working men and women"), the media glow quickly dissipated. By 11 p.m., Dukakis was upstaged on two of the three local newscasts by a murder trial...
...through the ropes to rescue their brother from local officials and fans. It looked like a battle royal of barbers. When the smoke cleared, Byun was sitting in his corner. For over an hour he sat. After the lights were switched off, he lingered another long moment in the glow of a TV camera before clambering down. Remembering something, Byun suddenly bolted back into the ring, bowed to the four corners in courtly style and departed forever...
...some observers see an emerging pattern: the virus writers tend to be men in their late teens or early 20s who have spent an inordinate portion of their youth bathed in the glow of a computer screen. Scientific American Columnist A.K. Dewdney, who published the first article on computer viruses, describes what he calls a "nerd syndrome" common among students of science and technology. Says Dewdney: "They live in a very protected world, both socially and emotionally. They leave school and carry with them their prankish bent...
...imposes ever greater privations on his people while indulging his wild-eyed ambitions. A reckless export drive has stripped grocery shelves of staples, making Rumania the only country in Europe where hunger is widespread and malnutrition on the rise. As beggars panhandle on Bucharest's crumbling sidewalks, welding torches glow night and day at the site of a monumental government complex, part of a multibillion-dollar "modernization" program that has already flattened almost half the capital's centuries-old historic district. In the meantime, Ceausescu feeds his ego with the only officially sanctioned personality cult in the East bloc. Says...