Word: vein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Roadies and, yes, Keith, shooting up, including one depressing scene with a young groupie wearily searching her arm for a functional vein...
...overcome the fact that, if properly approached, the Quad Ice Project is a thing of lyrical and exotic beauty. For this to become readily apparent to the uninitiated requires the willing viewer to assume a more poetic and fantastical frame of mind than is his wont. Tap the vein of poetry latent within us all. Think, not bathroom windows, but towering glaciers. Or, if the bathroom window resemblance remains inescapable, try to overcome its more prosaic implications. These are not ordinary frosted windows; these are the bathroom windows of your dreams, though slightly colder than the discriminating bather might wish...
...fraud. The Reagan Administration, which halted $78.7 million in aid to Haiti after last November's bloodbath, acknowledged that the voting was not "fully free and open" but noted that the U.S. "is gratified that these elections took place in an atmosphere free of violence." In the same vein, though officials contended the U.S. will not resume economic and military aid until Haiti becomes more democratic, they indicated they could work with Manigat...
...Bush, Robert Dole, Richard Gephardt, Michael Dukakis, Albert Gore and Paul Simon have all made their names by being competent insiders. Yet almost every candidate, with the exception of Bush (who with his pedigree paternity and Washington resume virtually embodies the Establishment), is now trying to mine a populist vein...
Robert Kennedy had come into the presidential race in a sheepish and vaguely ignominious fashion, piggybacking on Eugene McCarthy's courage. McCarthy, the sardonic Minnesota Senator who wrote poetry and loved to work the contrarian vein, challenged L.B.J. as far back as November 1967. The McCarthy campaign, which seemed a quixotic gesture, swiftly picked up thousands of young volunteers. Long-haired students went to the barber and put on neckties ("Clean for Gene") and fanned out across New Hampshire, the first primary state, canvassing door to door, building a grass-roots movement...