Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fitted with alternating wall-to-wall strips of clear glass and unpainted wood planks. The glass and fir are all new, but almost every bit of steel, 2,700 tons, is original. The space is gloriously scaled, and the strips of roof make for neat plays of sun and shadow on the eleven acres beneath. One simultaneously feels inside and outdoors, comforted and invigorated; the ambiguity, akin to that in medieval town squares, is delightful...
...fashionable confusions of their class and time. With apt symbolism, the Mitford girls paraded at smart London parties dressed as decadent Roman empresses. When the horses and hounds on their country estate bored them, the Mitfords traipsed abroad, treating Europe as their private playground. As the advancing shadow of World War II put a stop to the fun, they turned their patrician self-assurance to extremist politics. Nancy wrote the inside story in autobiographical novels, while Diana and Jessica wrote novelistic autobiographies. Now Diana's son Jonathan Guinness and his daughter Catherine have added their account...
...Wiley was not a run-of-the-beat lawman. He aspired to be a poet (writing lines like "my love is a silver shadow") and had long worked on a mystery novel called Harvest Madness. Bigam knew that the chief had been moody lately, and a bit bored with the department he joined in 1978 and had run since 1982. Still, Bigam did not suspect suicide. Wiley's normally disheveled uniforms had been left at the dry cleaner. His apartment was spotless, and his manuscript for Harvest Madness was missing...
Labor Leader Neil Kinnock, who campaigned in the district along with 16 members of his shadow cabinet and 150 Labor M.P.s, called his party's "magnificent" second-place finish "another step on the road to becoming the next government." For the time being, at least, that remains wishful thinking on Kinnock's part. Despite the loss in Brecon and Radnor, Thatcher retains a 140-vote majority in Britain's 650-member House of Commons, and does not have to call a general election until June...
Sandwiched between those developments was word that Burroughs and Sperry, two older computer makers that have long lived in IBM's shadow, were engaging in merger talks in hopes of competing more effectively together than apart. Such a combination would create the second largest manufacturer of data processing machines...