Word: skies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such a picture without being overtaken by a sudden, intimate, desolating sense of the particular strangeness and beauty of 20th-century civilization, and without realizing simultaneously that this exact, simple configuration of forms--the vista of T-shaped streetlamps, icicles on an orange iron railing, a depthless blue sky--is poignant, unrepeatable, resplendent with mystery...
...they journey through the space of thirty years. They intersect, gravitate around each other, spin away into lonely emptiness while a dozen minor characters drift around these central constellations. They construct galaxies and float apart with the humble wonder we feel when we muse on the infinity of the sky, in oceanic silence, and trace the impersonal yet poignant movement of the stars. Hazzard sees things in two planes, as both personal emotion and tragedy, life through the wrong end of a telescope, transparently removed--almost mythologized...
Fine, he would take the test, the test of wills, of the will to power, the will to survive. He would will, but still, the gray sky and purplish blood and jaundice and the nurse and Elsie's and Hitler tortured him. He thought he would fail the test...
...lines of blue lights etched the outlines of the remote landing strip. Suddenly flames illuminated the night sky, then gradually flickered out. On the powdery sands of Dasht-e-Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft. Nearby rested the scorched skeleton of a U.S. Navy RH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter. And in the wreckage were the burned bodies of eight American military air crewmen...
...other member nations to share their own supplies so that the shortfall is held to no more than 7%. But even though some IEA nations, such as West Germany and Denmark, continue to rely on Iranian exports for as much as 10% of their petroleum supplies, sky-high prices and slumping demand for crude have already created a worldwide mini-glut of oil that would offset any loss. Because of surplus supplies, the price of oil in the so-called spot market has declined from $42 per bbl. early this year to around $33. Indeed, with storage tanks already filled...