Word: paleness
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...more of folks took to dancing in the street anyway. Scuffed cowboy boots and battered sneakers kicked up dust and occasionally sent crushed aluminum beer / cans skittering across the gravel surface. The excited yelps of dancers wafted off into the desert toward arid mountain ranges swathed in the pale light of a distant moon, keeping silent watch over the U.S.-Mexican border...
...change has been partly reflected in the success of Jesse Jackson's candidacy. But the triumph of George Bush and Michael Dukakis has submerged political passion in favor of pragmatism and efficiency. Each has his programs and respectable records. Dukakis even tries to evoke the Kennedy legacy. But they pale in comparison to the faded photographs of Bobby reaching out to endless seas of eager hands and exciting admiring crowds. Bush has apologized to his supporters for not being adroit at articulating his emotions, and Dukakis has campaigned on the premise that the voters are tired of charisma. But Bobby...
Compared to Barr and Sifton, the other members of the Gurney family--Peter Ocko as Jack's uncle, Leta Hong Fincher as Ocko's wife and *** Tremoulet as their son--pale. While the three are adequate to good, Barr and Sifton save the play from being painful to watch...
This biological emphasis comports comfortably with the plots and subplots about betrayals by children. Such events do not pale before death; they become even more horrifying, because children are every parent's attempt at immortality. When sons and daughters assert their wills, they issue the last reminder of the permanence of the grave. -- W.A.H...
Throughout its campaign to organize Harvard's 4000 support staff, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) has focused on employee self-representation, instead of organizing around specific economic complaints. Union leaders say the particular issues pale in comparison with the broader quest for worker empowerment...