Word: skies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...term experimental aircraft carries an ominous suggestion of danger. If it's experimental, it might still have glitches that could send you plummeting out of the sky in a hurry. Besides, nonmilitary experimental planes are often built from kits out in the pilot's garage or barn. It's pretty obvious that you would need to have a death wish--or at least a reckless soul...
...Meanwhile, on the other side of the world: There were rumblings in Asia, and it had nothing to do with the dim sum. While Wall Street paraded record profits, in Hong Kong the sky was falling. Efforts to prop up the currency rocked the Hang Seng index, and the effect was more catastrophic than any galactic collision. By Friday, the Dow was as bitten as a Marv Albert chew-toy. Looks like George Soros has a lot more to answer...
...supplicate to them. From the very beginning of the novel, the gods are denigrated and demonized by the poor women and bondmaids who have been victimized by their carelessness. Han's mother prays as a last resort before selling her daughter. But finally she is forced to realize that "Sky God has no eyes nor ears" for the helpless village women who "had cried to [him] from time immemorial" for relief from abusive husbands and yearly pregnancies. Han's own prayers that Wu will return her love are only answered when she constructs her own altar to an abandoned female...
...seem more spectacular when they then walked back to the main stage to perform several last crowd-pleasers. The lights and magic around them really took off, and the ends of some of the last few numbers were punctuated with incredible pyrotechnic displays that completely lit up the sky. The encore brought both the simply classic and the fantastic to a maximum. While the group played "Brown Sugar," one of their most beloved singles, the air filled with gigantic geysers of confetti, which completely blanketed the stadium. Throughout all of this, the simple, pure rock and roll that...
...prose reads almost like a poet's at times Image follows metaphor, which follow conceit, which follows simile. There is proliferation of "like" and "seemed and imaginative figures of speech are densely crammed together. Sometime Golden's images ring false--raindrop that hit "like quail eggs," a sky "extravagant with stars," a retired geisha "more terrified of fire than beer is of a thirst...