Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kemeny waxed ebullient about her latest creation, which she described as "an Icelandic pattern of natural black sheep wool, you know, kind of a dark brown between gray herb and coffee. There's a snowflake pattern around the yolk, sleeves and waistband--a heathery oatmeal gray interspersed with a bright cherry red." Clearly, knitting has heightened Kemeny's appreciation for colors...
...table by the window, it's a sunny winter day, so bright the snow outside seems to glitter. I begin by asking Carpenter about the team, and he gives me a quick history of its evolution...
...this not-so-bright, not-so-talented technocrat get away with the worst act of treason in post-World War II America...
...right. And four days after our flight, in the safety of Miami's Catholic Relief Services office, we finally meet our rescuees. Their faces are still sunburned, their hands still blistered from rowing. One is a bright-eyed 37-year-old plumber by the name of Sergio Fidel Castro Hernandez. He and five friends had slipped away after dark from a Havana beach in their little vessel made of six bus tires. For two days, they rowed and drifted in the Gulf Stream without food or water. On the second day, shortly before the rescue, they spotted another group...
...minimum baseline level of cultural dishonesty that we can never rise above: the President "didn't inhale," heh heh. It's O.K. to drink till you puke, but you mustn't ever smoke the vile weed, heh heh. One of the hardest things a parent can ever tell a bright and questioning teen- ager -- after all the relevant sermonizing, of course -- is, Well, just don't get caught...