Word: glow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...RETAILERS GOT WHAT THEY WANTED FOR Christmas this year. After several holiday shopping seasons that ranged from dismal to desperate, the final tally for 1992 gave merchants and economists that rosy glow: helped by an obliging calendar that provided two extra shopping days this year, consumers converged on cash registers across the country to spread holiday cheer...
...sets, and the mosquitoes attack. The ends of cigarettes glow red in the dark. Disembodied voices tell jokes, complain about being away from home, discuss strategy and gossip about their comrades-in-arms...
...celebrate the last night of 1992? The same way they have spent every New Year's Eve since 1981, when Bill and Hillary Clinton joined fellow rising stars at Hilton Head Island for a RENAISSANCE WEEKEND of high-minded chat and a chance to bask in one another's glow. Sound like fun? This year a mob of 1,200 pols and aspiring Friends of Bill are clamoring for invitations to the exclusive camp, where 100 favored families will take part in seminars that last year ranged from "Our Fragile Planet" to "Building an Inner Life...
...text and pictures in Daddy's Roommate may give off a warm glow, but glowing books can light fuses. The book is on the recommended reading list of a new first-grade curriculum in New York City -- sort of a gay companion to Jack and Jill. And that has led to a bitter fight about when and how to teach children about homosexuality, a question that schools all around the country have begun -- very cautiously -- to confront...
...Umberto Baldini and Ornella Casazza (Abrams; $125). Now, after years of dedicated labor, the frescoes in the Florentine chapel look as they did in the Renaissance. The biblical figures painted by Masaccio, Masolino and Filippino Lippi glow anew in this testament to religious faith, artistic genius and scientific restoration...