Word: halo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lacking in selfesteem, many have donned and doffed different identities like costumes. Some have tried to weave identities out of fictional strands. Bremer imagined himself as the son of Actress Donna Reed. Sara Jane Moore, who tried to shoot President Ford, thought of herself as a Halo shampoo girl. The movie Taxi Driver wove together many themes found in the lives of American assassins. A taxi driver (played by Robert De Niro), obsessed with shooting a presidential candidate and protecting a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), beset by aggressive urges as well as sexual ones (coded in the film...
...they can not explain the incredible masses of the largest clusters. Recent research indicates, however, that the clusters might have captured the slow-moving relic neutrinos from the Big Bang and bound them in their gravitational fields. These neutrinos would then form the massive invisible halo surrounding the cluster...
FICTION: Consenting Adults or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Peter De Vries ∙ Italian Folktales, selected and retold by halo Calvino ∙ Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble The Second Coming, Walker Percy
...speeches might almost be called The Wit and Wisdom of George Lucas. Like Yoda, Lucas is a devout believer in the Force. Says Lucas: "When you are born, you have an energy field around you. You could call it an aura. An archaic description would be a halo. It is an idea that has gone all the way through history. When you die, your energy field joins all other energy fields in the universe, and while you're still living that larger energy field is sympathetic to your own energy field...
...book glows, holographic, with an unearthly halo, so that the precise details of lemon groves and white walls, dirty linoleum stairs, and blue velvet all hold the threat of profound poetry...