Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been the worst of winters. Temperatures down to -14 0 F. Shards of ice glittering on the Gothic towers of John Calvin's church, the Cathedral of St. Peter. The glacial wind known as the bise whipping the beautiful lake into whitecaps all along the quais that fan out from the Mont Blanc Bridge. Just last month, two feet of snow suddenly blocked all avenues to the Palais des Nations, the U.N.'s European headquarters, and forced the postponement of an international conference on human rights. Incroyable. Nobody could remember such a thing ever happening before. Swiss army recruits...
...public library in Tacoma; instead, the library offers free BASIC programming classes and a well-stocked computer lab, where potential buyers can test-drive the latest models. At the Peterborough, N.H., town library, cardholders check out and take home low-cost computers just as they would a mystery or gothic romance. "It's a matter of survival," says Joan Zaleski, director of the Connetquot Public Library in Bohemia, N.Y. "You have to be an up-to-date, exciting place or you'll go under...
...upon husband in this galvanizing redneck gothic is Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya); he owns a roadside bar and moves and thinks with a gorilla's heavy resolve. His wife is Abby (Frances McDormand), whose sexual desperation has drawn her into a liaison with Ray (John Getz), a bartender at Marty's place. They may not have much more in common than boredom, but it beats sleeping alone, or with Marty. The cuckold is aware of this, so he hires a mean, giggly detective (M. Emmet Walsh) to kill them. The detective has a better idea. He'll kill his client...
...Henry Luce directed that from then on at least one color page should appear in every issue of TIME. Four-color photographs had made their debut in the magazine years before Luce's decree (in a 1934 survey of U.S. Depression-era painting, including Grant Wood's classic, American Gothic). But color was expensive, not always accurate and + required such a long time from photo to printed page that it was used only to illustrate feature stories...
...starting to say that the next step is to get the admissions people out badmouthing Yale. Out everywhere. Lamenting the miserable conditions, the strike, the quisling administration, the boring students, the depressing gothic architecture. Remember Bart, you've got to hang tough. Remember how I did it on those South Africa investments. Our plan is going to take more than posturing. Quoting Socrates will only...