Word: moment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bundy was executed because the judicial system believed he did not belong to our vision of an ordered society. Where we believe that we respect the sanctity of human life, he was a man who found pleasure in that fleeting, tragic moment when life is extinguished...
...major career decision for celebrities at the moment is not whether to sell out but which cola to endorse when they do. In the latest episode of their unending battle to top each other, Coca-Cola and Pepsi are offering fees that almost no one can resist. Last week Pepsi announced that the Material Girl, Madonna, has signed up for a one-year global advertising campaign (her estimated fee: almost $10 million). The title song from the singer's new album, Like a Prayer, will debut in March on Pepsi's prime-time television commercials. Pepsi's team has already...
Rodriguez, a member of a faction that supports democratic reforms, said nothing about elections nor how long his provisional presidency would last. He spoke at his swearing-in ceremony and in a nationwide address hours earlier in which he declared he was "taking command of the country from this moment...
...moment, 1968, that mysteriously stepped outside of time, one that was forever bringing the young to dimensions of eternity and the sacred: the boy-soldiers in Viet Nam were connected to death, the heroes to their own cessations, cut down in the prime of their youth and work. Part of the mythic power of the year derives from the mystery of all the possibilities that vanished into death and nothingness. (In October there came an odd, minor coda to the sex and death and disillusion of the '60s, when Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. Illusion -- Camelot and the rest -- came...
...knife blade that separated past from future. It is still in the American mind, a moment outside of time...