Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...television screens in the 60s, with Star Trek: The Original Series. Since then, its following has increased exponentially (and globally), spawning the creation of a successful movie franchise and several more television series. In contrast, George Lucas' Star Wars phenomenon debuted not on the small screen, but on the silver screen in 1977, with Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. With Episode I on the way, many expect box office records to be shattered again...
...television screens in the 60s, with Star Trek: The Original Series. Since then, its following has increased exponentially (and globally), spawning the creation of a successful movie franchise and several more television series. In contrast, George Lucas' Star Wars phenomenon debuted not on the small screen, but on the silver screen in 1977, with Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. With Episode I on the way, many expect box office records to be shattered again...
...Overall, almost 1,000 people are injured; almost 5,000 buildings -- homes, churches, libraries, businesses -- destroyed. More than $500 million in damages. By Thursday, the living were starting to sound grateful, to find silver linings. In Oklahoma City, seven-year-old Megan Varva was showing off her new outfit, the first of many replacements to come. Scott Pitman remembered a woman who had let go of the underpass she was clinging to to hand off her young son. She was swept away; the son survived. For Bruce Silsby, an owner of a destroyed surplus store, reality is a simple matter...
...Hispanic males drew a silver semi-automatic shotgun and pointed it at the group at which point they fled the area...
...standing only a little more than nine inches high. Its base, stem and bulb are decorated with some 80 tiny and exquisitely made enamel-glass plaques, representing mythical beasts, evangelists, angels, prophets and apostles. The gold surface between them carries a rich linear ornamentation that never gets congested. The silver-gilt cup, borne up on the stem, is quite plain: it shifts visual gear from the "worldly" solidity of the base to an abstract purity that seems transcendent. If you wanted a container for the blood of Jesus, it would be impossible to imagine a more fitting one than this...