Word: sunless
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...three shifts: one from 1 a.m. to 3 p.m., one from 3 p.m. to midnight and another red-eye from midnight to 7 a.m. "It's doesn't matter if it's dark outside," Curly points out, "it's dark down there anyway". Compensation is just for this sunless travail. According to some workers at the South Station tunnel site, "We get paid $90,000 a year and that's probably a hell of a lot more than you'll get paid out of Harvard." The engineer working at the hole next door to the bus station talks about...
...what about parents' weekends? Either crisp fall with brightly colored leaves or balmy spring days greet the onslaught of parents who are checking on their little darlings. Observing the gorgeous campus, they can only go away pleased, unaware of the sunless days that plague their kiddies when no one is around with dollars to donate...
...such a resonant chord? The texts, which include a 15th century monastic lament, a mournful folk song about the death of a child and, most movingly, a brief prayer to the Virgin inscribed on the wall of a Gestapo prison by an 18-year-old Polish girl, evoke a sunless world of pain and suffering. The ineffable music, which unfolds seamlessly from small, minimalist melodic motifs, evolves into a soaring Brucknerian cathedral. Hardly the stuff of which gold records are made...
...these espionage novels, impudent crimes were committed on both sides of the Berlin Wall. There was a peculiar similarity to the sunless corridors and bureaucratic fatigue of Moscow and Washington. Enemies became interdependent and sometimes indistinguishable; it was a case of the left hand strengthening the right. George Smiley in Britain needed his rival Karla in Moscow. NATO needed the Warsaw Pact. The CIA needed the KGB. And the spy novelists needed them...
...glasnost and the refusal of U.S. hard-liners to embrace perestroika. Deighton, on the other hand, is caught embarrassingly short. Spy Line, his new novel, puts him five books into a convoluted six- volume series that depends on East Germany's walled-in villainy to sustain its gray and sunless menace...