Word: pales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dennis Orsen's reasons for being at the festival are mainly evangelical. A balding Lutheran pastor in a pale suit, the peripatetic Orsen recently settled in nearby Steubenville and found the local culture as difficult to crack as a Zen riddle. Someone suggested he read James Wright. And has this helped at all? "There's one poem about football -- when I saw that, I said to myself, boy, that explains a lot of what I'm working with," he answers...
Whatever problems the Asian NICs face pale beside the difficulties plaguing Latin America. Mexico was already staggering under foreign debt of more than $90 billion when oil prices collapsed last year and decimated one of its major sources of revenue. In the meantime, the government has been conducting a surprisingly successful crash campaign to diversify the economy. Mexico has become an exporter of chemicals, aluminum, medical instruments and cars (built by Chrysler and other foreign companies...
...reveled on Born in the U.S.A. Here they hang back; indeed, on four songs the Boss handles the instrumentation by himself. Born in the U.S.A. was an album full of bright light and bold colors and deliberate, surreptitious contradictions. Tunnel of Love, by contrast, seems washed in autumn moonlight, pale and chill. These are twelve songs for the season of the witch...
...principle, liked him. Indeed there are Zurbarans whose pure literalness might strike a modern eye as surrealistic; for example, his figure of the Sicilian martyr St. Agatha daintily bearing on a platter her breasts (which had been cut off by order of a wicked Roman prefect) looking like two pale pink, heavenly scoops of gelato...
...Judge Gerhard Gesell in Washington last week and was sentenced to six years in a minimum-security federal prison after pleading guilty to helping defraud Intelsat of $4.8 million. In addition, the defendant was ordered to pay $865,000 in restitution to Intelsat. "I have no excuses," said a pale and stooped Colino, who asked Gesell for a "chance to demonstrate that I can still lead a productive life and contribute to society . . . What happened was an aberration...