Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast to such vibrancy, only a dozen graying worshipers attend the Silver Bluff Missionary Baptist Church in Beech Island, S.C., for a Wednesday night service. Founded in 1750, Silver Bluff is the oldest surviving black congregation in the U.S. Noting the total absence of younger Baptists at the service, head deacon Willie Sims utters an earnest prayer: "Father, come back to Silver Bluff one more time...
...many Adams residents could describe Lauderdale's parties as being average, however. His legendary talent for merry-making may have roots in his childhood. When he was three years old, Lauderdale says, his parents threw a "silver spoon party...
...Venezuela. As one of the largest exporters of petroleum outside the Persian Gulf, it stands to reap a windfall of $2 billion this year from the rise in oil prices since Iraq invaded Kuwait. Yet as seen from Miraflores Palace, the official residence of President Carlos Andres Perez, every silver lining has its cloud. "This is phony money that we're making from the crisis," said Perez last week. "Whatever it can buy today, it may bring us damage and danger tomorrow...
Which is exactly what irks a number of older musicians, who feel that the % youngsters are getting it all on a silver platter without the hard knocks and dues paying that their predecessors went through. "They're getting a place in jazz history that they have not deserved or earned," says bassist Ron Carter, 53. "I mean, at 19, 20, how much can you really know?" Many veterans complain that record companies are passing them over in favor of the young guns...
...setters, the Von Bulows seem positively Ruritanian -- starched anachronisms, prisoners of good taste when hardly anyone else bothers. So screenwriter Nicholas Kazan and director Barbet Schroeder have woven a cunningly old-fashioned artifice -- a drawing-room comedy with a toxic tinge ^ -- told from three points of view. Alan (Ron Silver) is the detective, groping for a truth he may never know or, knowing, accept. Claus (Jeremy Irons) is the cagey chameleon, resigned to a notoriety he also enjoys. "I'm wondering," Alan muses, "who you are," and Claus replies, "Who would you like me to be?" And Sunny (Glenn Close...