Word: pales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work harder. Still, when they landed last Tuesday, Soviet television showed them looking tired, with dark circles under their eyes. The most alert and healthy-looking was Atkov, a cardiologist who had kept close watch on the condition of his crewmates. Mission Commander Kizim and Engineer Solovyev looked pale and haggard, but happy to be home. "We feel well," insisted Kizim, lying back in a chair...
Helen Mirren and John Lynch play their roles with a great deal of sensitivity. Mirren is attractively demure, suitably drained of spirit, and reluctant to connect with the people about her. Lynch's pale, emaciated body, his sallow face with long unkempt hair, and his silent dejected look combine to create a continual haunting presence. Donal McCann, as Cal's father, contributes to the most moving moments in the film (those scenes between father and son that intersperse and intensify the story...
...loons of the north country will begin to change color. All summer they have been got up gorgeously, like pool-hall hustlers. The back, a tessellation of white speckles on a canvas of black, will turn gray-brown. The jet-black head and bill will go dull gray, pale white. The neckbands−brilliant, symmetrical hash marks−will disappear. And so will the loons. Put a telescope on the beaches of North Carolina, or Florida, aim it out to the three-mile marker, near the sea lanes, and there the loons will be, riding the water...
...Reagan noted near the end of his speech, "Four years ago we raised a banner of bold colors-no pale pastels." Certainly there was nothing muted about what the President, or his party colleagues and their platform, had to say last week. As the ardent cheering for Reagan's acceptance speech swelled, even the balloons behaved. Red ones fell from nets on the ceiling, white ones rose from the floor...
...watched the spectacle, I rejoiced that I am not the one responsible for organizing the Seoul Olympics in 1988. Anything T could do would pale in comparison with Los Angeles' magnificent show...