Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only sympathetic exception among the doctors, who lets Elliot share a last moment with E. T. after the lab-technicians have zipped up his body bag, is a singularly flaky character, who confesses his abiding wish to look up into the sky and see spaceships. (Imagine how hard even the most generous-spirited of us would laugh if a Harvard scientist tried a line like that...
...ships were just offshore, riding at anchor, gray silhouettes of power in a classic setting of blue sky, bright sunshine and white clouds. At daybreak on Wednesday morning last week, precisely on time, 800 U.S. Marines landed at Beirut Port. Their mission: to assist, with 800 French and 500 Italian troops, in the task of evacuating 7,000 Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from the Lebanese capital. After the Marines landed, they soon had the situation well in hand. Said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes the next morning: "Everything is going according to plan...
...clean and fresh as a magenta night sky, Georgia O'Keeffe's canvases have long evoked both the energy and the purity of her adopted American Southwest. And now, at the age of 94, O'Keeffe has turned anew to a medium she all but abandoned in 1917: sculpture. Apparently inspired by her assistant and acolyte, Juan Hamilton, 36, O'Keeffe finally completed Abstraction, an 11-ft. spiral of painted cast aluminum. Now on display in a sculpture show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, her first major work as a sculptor gives...
Just before 5 p.m. there is a barrage of artillery fire so fierce, so extensive, so positively horrifying in its intensity that Frey and I are stunned into silence. Building after building comes crashing down. Great flashes of fire light up the sky. A crescendo of noise like some dreadful thunder rolls across the city...
Wall Street's gloomiest forecasters argue that sky-high borrowing costs are literally ruining the business environment for American industry. Says Raymond Dalio of Bridgewater Associates, a Wilton, Conn., economic forecasting firm: "I think we'll see a repeat of the Crash of 1929. The only way we can avoid a further acceleration of failures is to get a substantial break in interest rates accompanied by a sharp increase in economic activity. That has not happened, and that is why I believe we are already in the early stages of a depression." Dalio expects the Dow to drop...