Word: paling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neighboring Pakistan, another deposed leader was having what may be his last day in court. Pale, shaking and gaunt, former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto emerged from 15 months in solitary confinement to appeal the death sentence handed down by a Pakistan court for plotting the murder of a political opponent...
...Itmanship himself, est's own Werner Erhard, has materialized on stage. The roar of welcome goes on as he lays claim to the spotlight, hoisting himself onto a director's chair, a gray-flanneled leg tucked underneath him. The clamor trails off only when his words and pale gaze begin to spill across the crowd, conveying the improbable intimacy that seems to be the gift of all magnetic evangelists. It is the sound, not the content that mesmerizes, and before long he is saying, "Nothing is going to enlighten you. What will enlighten you is nothing...
...King Island, is a masterpiece of terse narrative and clinical observation. Without wasting a diphthong, Roueche captures the look and feeling of the gray ice-choked sea, the pleasant bite of whisky and the new taste of muktuk, or whale fat: "The blubber looked like a block of cheese-pale pink cheese with a thick black rind. It was very tender and almost tasteless. The only flavor was a very faint sweetness...
While generals and admirals have paraded in and out of the elegant pale yellow structure over the years, Blair House has remained a place of hope. The original house was built in 1824 by an offshoot of the Lovell family of Massachusetts, taken over later for a century by the Blairs, who came out of Kentucky to join Jackson and waxed wealthy from publishing and real estate. But always the national purpose was a central theme in the family life. Indeed, it was Francis Preston Blair Sr. who twice went off for Lincoln on secret missions to Jefferson Davis...
...which marked the time-honored Garden Gym. The "Snow...blind." The smoke drifted over from the grille, covering liquor breaths and camera clarity. Johnson led into some other songs behind his tapeband including "Catch a Fallen Star," the most impressive of the bunch. He spaced-out Lou Reed's "Pale Blue Eyes" (a testimonial to Hank Williams, also done by Patti Smith), leaving its tribute as poignant as novocaine...