Word: starlit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solve all our confusions by going above the heads of lawmakers. The classic premise of comedy, and the ritual revelry from which it springs, is of a story that concludes with a vision of unity, of natural harmony. So, after all the lunacies and bumps of Shakespeare's starlit night are over, the spirits come down to put everything to right, and the lovers awaken with the morning lark only to suspect that it was all a dream. Love is blind, and its victims are mad, the poet suggests, but only for a night, a brief, forgetful spell. Perhaps even...
...Opening Day, astroturf looks like grass. The domes look like a starlit sky. The Red Sox road uniforms look like Pierre Cardin originals...
...PHANTOM OF THE OPERA; JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (MCA). The cat's meow: Paul Gemignani and the Royal Philharmonic Pops step lively through starlit arrangements of Andrew Lloyd Webber's megamusicals...
...cold, starlit night last month a group of 36 strangers was ushered into the Tehran Hilton with all the security precautions that once attended the transfer of the Iranian crown jewels. While plainclothesmen and a detachment of Islamic Guards armed with machine guns hustled the group through the lobby, hotel staffers were amazed to hear the foreigners address one another, and their Iranian hosts, as baradar (brother), in the best tradition of Islamic revolutionaries, while they chatted in flawless, idiomatic Farsi...
...addition to these factors, like so many things in life, the success of a swim club often comes down to cash. "A lot of it is the development of the economic context that allows clubs to attract the good swimmers from their areas and the ones nearby," said Starlit Coach Alan Caldwell. "Every year we have to go through the process of going out and trying to round up sponsors." The importance of money lies not only in the day-to-day upkeep of the facility, but in the ability to help top swimmers make the trip...