Word: glows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he wanted to hear Schoenberg, Hindemith, Stravinsky, and Bartok-but he could never find the time. Married twice, his amorous escapades were infamous. He was charming, monstrous, lonely, tortured. He was trapped in the upside-down world of jazz. Day began at dusk and ended whenever the counterfeit glow of alcohol, drugs and sex wore off. He began to use heroin to unlock the doors of creativity the way Coleridge used opium and Schiller inhaled rotten apples. Finally he lost the trick of living off the top. "Do as I say and not as I do," he admonished Trumpeter...
...enough to be a good observer. The reader does not want Casey to be explained-at the core of every soul there is an irreducible question mark, and the only difference between politicians and other sinners is that the former's question marks are little neon signs that glow in five colors and blink on and off. The trouble with Perkins is that he shrugs and gives up before he gets to the place where Casey's blinking sign could have been seen...
...sleeping through the descending darkness. She does not see the lessening light which produces strange crying shadows on the walls and floor. When she awakens, she will smell rather than see the dingy orange glow. The advent of the day's hour which always bring her wandering to it's unsatisfied end. The hour of streetlights and sharp rank neon. She will smell the colors, and the time, rather than see them...
...while after the swap, things were rosy; as the talkative Susanne related last week, "Mike and Marilyn were thrillingly in love. I thought it was so beautiful." They all thought it so beautiful, in fact, that they contemplated not only a double divorce but a double wedding. Then the glow faded. On December 5, they switched back to their original partners, but "Marilyn cried for Mike," Fritz says, and the attempted reconciliation lasted only nine days. On December 14, there was another, presumably last switch. But Marilyn, influenced by what Mike calls her "background," felt too guilty to continue living...
...reception given by the National Guard Association one night last week. Afterward, he drove his 1973 Buick sedan back to his $50,000 two-story brick home in one of Washington's better residential districts. Lined with tall ginkgo trees but lit by only the pale yellow glow of corner street lights, the Northwest Washington neighborhood has known little crime...