Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shooting at me. A soldier, his face hidden in the shadow of his helmet, raised an automatic rifle and fired. His bullets were hitting everywhere, and the fragments of glass and pavement were bouncing off my body. I have never been so aware of anything as I was at that moment...
...more certain he sounded, the less certain he looked. In middle age the gulf between what you are and who you are is too wide to cross, too -- what? -- extreme. Who knows what turmoil lurks in the hearts of men old enough to remember The Shadow? The Captain knows...
However, a little patience pays off. Flamboyant and cocky, beat poet Bunthorne (Adam Albion) bursts onto the stage, surrounded by a swarm of swooning girls who emulate his attire and shadow his every move, swaying rapturously with every flourish of his poetic pen. The effect is hilarious...
...ways unimagined ten years ago, the shadow that has obscured the truth about alcohol has begun to lift. There is encouraging news, and it is substantial. "Silence is each day giving way to courage," Otis Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services, said recently, "and shame to strength." Evident all around is a busy sense of awakening. Children are learning about the perils of alcohol in school through slogans like "Get Smart, Don't Start -- Just Say No." The accumulated scientific findings of the past decade are having a major impact on the public. Recently a Gallup poll found that...
...generations, for centuries. I see a city being cemented into place against the sky -- a city of monstrous buildings, with a disregard for human scale, human values. Koch is building a big city, not a great one. The Koch administration, I fear, will go down in history surrounded by shadows, the shadow of corruption and the shadows cast by enormous buildings...