Word: envelope
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shadowy eves of the newly opened Landsdowne St. Playhouse. This is a small, trendy theater upstairs from Mama Kin, Aerosmith's new night club. The sound here is predictably terrific; songs including the Talking Heads, Tony Bennett and an oddly sinister Muzak version of "Here Comes the Sun" deliciously envelop the audience in the mood of each scene. Only briefly in the performance was sound from the nightclub below audible. The set is extremely stripped down--a few tables and chairs--but dramatic, with a backdrop curtain made from strips of film lit from behind with washes of colored light...
...often, the news from black America seems to be all bad: crime, broken families, failing schools, abject hopelessness. Yet amid the bleak circumstances that envelop so much of the African-American community, a singularly heartening piece of good news has been overlooked. Black artists are now embarked on one of the most astonishing outbursts of creativity in the nation's history. Never before -- not even during the legendary great Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s or the bristling Black Arts Movement of the '60s -- have black artists produced so much first-rate writing, music, painting and dance. For them...
Gaskin's report sees the entire South Korean front crumbling in as few as three days. Never trained to retreat and regroup, the Southern troops would flee in disorganized panic. North Korean armored columns would then envelop Seoul and drive south toward Taejon, a key crossroad, gobbling up captured oil and gasoline supplies along the way and speeding toward Pusan. As the invaders tear through the countryside, Seoul's lightly armed reserve units would fall to North Korea's tanks and armored personnel carriers. Millions of panicked civilians clog the highways, blocking South Korean reinforcements trying to move north...
...Like the loosening of a necktie, it signaled a relaxation into informality at the end of a meal or the start of a baseball game, before drinks or after sex. Even for the solitary steam fitter or housewife, the act of sending a geyser from mouth to ceiling could envelop the user in a penumbra of calm thoughtfulness. It was an empyrean for daydreams -- the cloud of smoke our thoughts went...
...fight to the finish. Thus, unless this week's developments lead to a lasting truce, the worst is perhaps still to come. In the countryside, the fighting has disrupted the planting season, and without a harvest in early 1994, says World Food Program spokeswoman Mercedes Sayagues, deprivation could envelop all of Angola. Even Luanda, the capital, has not gone untouched. On its northern outskirts 10,000 refugees have pitched camp, and in Josina Machel hospital, the country's largest, scores of amputees lie in unlighted corridors...