Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel sorry for anyone who would title their autobiography Reflections in a Crystal Teardrop, but Joan Baez manages to come out from under the weight of Dylan's cynicism with her dignity intact. There is one long scene--perhaps we could call it "Diamonds and Rust Comes to the Silver Screen"--in which Baez and Sara stage a tug of war over the bemused Renaldo. Sara is shown as a made-up 35-year-old housewife, a sort of pushy Zelda Sayre; it is hard to believe that Dylan could have written "Sad-eyed Ladies" for her, let alone describe...
...rose the Senate's silver-haired Majority Leader Robert Byrd, ready to address the crowded chamber. After three months' tireless, tenacious work on behalf of the Panama Canal treaties, he was in a mood for Shakespearean rhetoric. "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune," he declared. "The Rubicon of decision on the treaties is now to be crossed...
...Olympic silver medalist Bobby Hackett, the freshman prodigy from Yonkers, N.Y., who led the Crimson to an undefeated dual meet season and a second place finish at the Eastern Championships last month, set yet another new Harvard University record in the first event of the three day meet, the 500-yd. freestyle...
...have grown weary of watching the local football players and their fawning cheerleaders. Visiting the old high school doesn't tempt me either. Most of the teachers I Knew are gone, and all the people are too young. Only the speckled floors, bisected by a strip of silver, are the same. The lunchroom now has round tables on which ice cream sandwich wrappers are still smeared...
...sparked and made to respond, a chemical maybe or a lone chromosome that when made to fire would produce chain reactions of valor that even the biles could not drown. A filament, a fuse, that if ignited would release the full energy of what might be. There was a Silver star twinkling somewhere inside...