Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead scored their only top-ten hit with the phrase, "every silver lining's got a touch of grey...
...songs here are about sex, imminent or recollected. The album's first words -- "You've seen me naked in more ways than one/ You've seen me done up, seen me come undone" -- seem ribald, until you realize that the song (Full Circle) is a kind of silver-anniversary present to a constant lover. The potently plaintive (You Got Me Over) A Heartache Tonight is a woman's thank-you note to a friend who slept with her as a curative to her love-sick blues. In the silky I'll Make Your Bed, the promise of sexual favors sounds...
Yeltsin has more than enough enemies. To fanatical nationalists he is the Judas who sold his country to the West for 30 silver dollars. Russians disgusted with politics claim they see no real difference between Yeltsin and his parliamentary rivals. Still, the worrisome events at the Congress have turned many fence-straddlers overnight into ardent Yeltsin supporters...
...silver lining to this season's shortage of players was that the team became tight-knit because of its smaller size...
...addict with a history of irrational behavior. As Gahl approached, Jackson abruptly opened fire with his shotgun. He listened to the wounded officer plead for his life, then pulled the trigger twice more at close range. Fifteen minutes later, the gunman, having disguised his face and beard with silver spray paint, held up a grocery store. When the counterman was a little slow emptying the cash register, Jackson blew him away. One of the most vicious crime sprees of the '80s had begun...