Word: pales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...televangelist was fulfilling a promise he had made during a fund-raising drive that netted $20 million for the debt-ridden PTL. Looking a little pale at the top of the 163-ft.-long water slide, Falwell recited the Lord's Prayer before his hellish four-second descent into the pool below, where he landed shoes up. Nearby, a group of PTL partners brandished a sign that read FALWELL, DON'T BACKSLIDE...
Interiors have also been updated. Instead of the traditional dark teak, many modern designers prefer the pale look of ash and pastel fabrics to lighten below-deck cabins. They often pad walls with Ultrasuede or leather for sound control. Denison's boatyard allows customers to supervise every detail right up to the track lighting. Bannenberg even designs every spoon, every ashtray...
...PALE KINGS AND PRINCES...
...dissenters' pleas are answered in Pale Kings and Princes, a wry and rowdy tale of a Massachusetts burg corrupted by drug money. The first-person narrative is a running comic diatribe against such targets as ignorant bartenders, hash-house cooking, thick-necked lawmen and macho, possessive Latin lovers. Most of the talk is badinage rather than wit, but it serves to deflate the pomp without completely devaluing the circumstance. Violence pervades the landscape, yet Parker always pauses to evoke compassion for the victims. And despite the ebullient entertainment, his purpose is as serious as ever: to remind readers that...
...grand jury to indict Donovan and the other defendants on charges of larceny and fraud in connection with a subway-tunnel deal. The next year, after a judge refused to dismiss the indictment, Donovan felt obliged to resign. Small wonder, then, that after his acquittal Donovan, rigid and pale, called out to Prosecutor Stephen Bookin, "Give me back my reputation...