Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...famous people. "My life was like this kind of enviable weird thing that I spent my life apologizing for." Mother Debbie rebounded, marrying retail footwear magnate Harry Karl, who eventually drank and gambled his way through his millions and into debts large enough to swallow her fortune too. The bright starry life-style collapsed by 1972 into a Saturnian world with concentric rings of emotional pain, financial instability and psychological drama. "My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us," says Carrie. To dig their way out of the financial hole, Debbie...
...center of a circle of bright, successful friends -- a post- Beatles hipster Algonquin Table that cellularly convenes to muse and amuse. She survives the mottled curse of fame by fostering deep, intimate friendships. Her coterie ranges from her ex's 18-year-old son to a 71-year-old psychiatrist and includes director Penny Marshall, comic philosopher Albert Brooks, actor Richard Dreyfuss, musicians Don Henley and J.D. Souther, and many more...
When the new decade dawned 10 months ago, the promise of a bright and peaceful new world filled the air. The U.S. and its allies had won the cold war, and Americans looked forward to raking in a substantial peace dividend as their just reward. In Europe, countries that had been bitter rivals for centuries marched toward economic partnership in 1992. Eastern Europe, mired for decades in communist stagnation, threw off its shackles and rushed to join the capitalist world. In Asia, a proud Japan stood as the world's new financial superpower and the chief lender to the rest...
...certainly be as celebrated today as Rivera himself if he had not died in 1918 at the age of 30, and ending with Rufino Tamayo, who is still alive at 91. Tamayo's paintings, like The Merry Drinker, 1946, are based as much on Mexican popular art with its bright organic colors as on the inspiration of Picasso; broad humor and even a fierce grotesqueness are never far away. And the main body of his work lies within the scale of easel painting, whereas Rivera's does not. Murals, by their nature, cannot be moved around, and so Rivera...
...protesters, with their bright signs and chants, stood out among the many law students dressed in business suits who walked past them yesterday afternoon on their way to various interviews...