Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bespectacled attorney The TV commercial opens with a bespectacled attorney reading a last will and testament. Incongruously present are the not so dear departed, hugely enjoying themselves as the lawyer tells the grieving heirs: "To Ronald Reagan we leave a recession, inflation at 12.4% and rising, gas prices sky high." Chortling merrily at the dubious bequest are-could it be? - Democrats Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill...
...Greenfield opera house on a June night. Greenfield was still tentative then, with wooden buildings, dirt streets and the scuffed look of any human habitation that dares stand before the scouring west wind. "A land without echoes or shadow," wrote John Madson in his evocative new book, Where the Sky Began...
...cattle country of western El Salvador, the billboard stands against the wide sky and the grazing flatlands. But its confident statement of hope has become a bitter irony to the farmers at nearby El Canadá, a cooperative set up under an ambitious land reform program begun two years ago. It is planting time at El Canadá, but the cooperative has been unable to obtain credit to buy seed and fertilizer. The fields are fallow, the oxen idle. No one has yet received a day's pay. Unless the tomato and corn crops are planted in the next...
Midnight in the big bad city. Down by the docks the mood was as warm and moist and treacherous as Ava Gardner's parted lips, and the moonless sky was swarming with metaphors. I was prowling those mean streets, not looking for trouble. It knew where to find...
...Norse texts of Scaldic poetry, the hymns of the "kill spree." The poets were particular about the best light and color for battle: "The hour before daybreak is all right because it lends to the crimson of liquid blood a nice admixture of an azure sky and the silvery gray of the fading moon...