Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brightens my life." He has devised a novel idea about judicial reform: "All this talk about victims' rights and restitution gets me. What about my family? I'm a victim of a crooked criminal system. Isn't my family entitled to something?" The shadow of the death penalty does not faze him: "I don't see that happening to me. What would killing me solve? Isn't that just another murder? If I got to die, it's going to be of natural causes." The state of Illinois thinks otherwise. Says Michael Ficaro...
Maintaining the pound may prove similarly difficult. With last week's slide, the value of sterling has dropped some 13% since Oct. 12, when the bout of jitters began. The Labor Party's shadow chancellor of the exchequer, Peter Shore, called the decline "yet further evidence of the failure and incompetence of this government's economic policies...
...unbowed pride of a hunted race, clinging with that tiny dimpled hand ... to a hope not hopeless but unhopeful, and seeing with those bright wondering eyes that peer into my soul a land whose freedom is to us a mockery and whose liberty a lie. I saw the Shadow of the Veil as it passed over my baby. I saw the cold city towering above the blood-red land. I held my face beside his little cheek, showed him the star-children and the twinkling lights as they began to flash, and stilled with an even-song the unvoiced terror...
...Boston, corruption probes shadow the city's administration
What is left, and still has its slick power, is the music. Songwriting teams like Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil composed terrific teen anthems for the girl groups. Producers Phil Specter, Shadow Morton and Holland-Dozier-Holland encased the adenoidal voices in a cushion of strings, saxophones and heartbeat percussion. In those years before rock became Ph.D. fodder, the girl-group sound married musical sophistication and the saving emotional jolt. That sound retains its power and appeal. On record, at least, the dream girls are still beautiful...