Word: shadings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colorful tapestry hangs as a curtain over the window, replacing the standard-issue white shade. A red-velvet-covered wood table sits next to an easy chair, while a hand-carved blow gun hangs above the fire-place...
That does not happen very often in a frantic media age where tales of every conceivable variety and shade of veracity course constantly through the national consciousness. Because television is a medium designed for leaving impressions, not memories, the television age is one in which facts and words and truth are maddeningly elusive, in which national memories are extraordinarily shallow. Yet there remains one stubborn barrier to total amnesia. The law: ancient, ponderous, interminable, immovable. But fixedly real...
Anita Parman, 59, is here with roughly 30 family members who look like a lost division of the convoy from The Grapes of Wrath. Dogs dive for shade under beat-up trailers, and dust-coated kids wear wet towels to beat the bastard sun. Last fall Anita got pulled over while living up north and had to cough up $1,500 for car insurance and a smog inspection, so she said the hell with that. "I'd rather get me a horse and a couple of burros and live here...
...protectors tall, dark and inscrutable, preferably with mirrored sunglasses. With an earpiece and a little cord that disappears down past a starched collar. With nothing to say to us. Sure, we?ve giggled at you from time to time, but never to your face. You?re too scary, a shade less than human, and that?s the way we like it. The way it?s got to be. No snitching, no tell-all interviews with Ed Bradley, no book deals. Eyes and ears, but no mouth. Face it. You?re furniture...
...over themselves. Both chemicals have been reformulated so that they no longer leave a residue. But some people find that these sunblocks clog their pores or feel sticky on their skin, so they may prefer one of the new products with Parsol 1789, like Ombrelle, PreSun Ultra or Shade UVA Guard...