Word: radiant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glows. Timex introduced a dial that lights up in a commercial so droll that some Saturday Night Live viewers took it for an SNL send-up. Sinatra croons "Strangers in the night . . ." as a smitten firefly hovers over the sparkling watch. Smack! A huge hand suddenly swats at the radiant suitor but misses him, hitting the watch. The disconsolate firefly takes off. The object of his affections "takes a licking and keeps on ticking...
...family, Diana has made it clear in recent weeks that she relishes the prospect of going her own way. On the weekend of Nov. 14, while Charles was home celebrating his 44th birthday, Diana made a high-profile trip to Paris that turned into a triumph. Looking relaxed and radiant, she spent nearly two hours with the Mitterrands, much of it with the President himself. She appears confident discussing humanitarian and social issues in such powerful surroundings and invariably wins the rapt attention of Presidents and ministers with a distinctly honest way of speaking and asking questions...
...always end her letters with an optimistic note about the future. The one thing of which I am entirely certain is that she did not feel ready to die. At the age of 44, there were still many things she wanted to do and was going to do. Always radiant and with a very sharp wit, she befriended ecologists and other activists worldwide...
Haring is perhaps best known for his outline cartoon figures surrounded with quick, sharp lines. Perhaps one of the most famous images is Radiant Child, a drawing of a crawling baby accented by Haring's signature black lines. Haring created over 5000 drawings between 1981 and 1986. He was arrested at least 20 times for defacing public property with his "graffiti art"; in actuality, when he painted in subway stations, he only painted on blank billboards...
...discovery in World War I that scientific advances had also produced better engines of death and destruction turned speculation about the future excessively sour. Bellamy's radiant city became the high-tech slave societies of Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We and Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis. Aldous Huxley perfected the notion of dystopia in 1932 with Brave New World, and George Orwell weighed in with his haunting classic...