Word: candlelit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...candlelit dinner and dancing is cliched. February is too cold for a picnic dinner on a hill watching the sunset somewhere. And there's usually not enough snow for a good sleigh ride, unless you're willing and able to fork over serious dough...
...city to permit a huge Hanukkah menorah in a public square, the Ku Klux Klan erected a tit-for-tat wooden cross nearby. Though this particular cross was not afire, its sponsorship by the hate group inflamed local opinion. A day before its erection, hundreds gathered in a candlelit protest. Hours after the appearance of the Klan krucifix, a pair of demonstrators toppled and trampled on it -- but the Klan had a new cross up within days. Meanwhile, the two vandals were arrested under the very democratic principles that a century of Klansmen have never understood...
...against that backdrop that Strauss must conduct his unconventional ambassadorship, while dealing with a U.S. Administration and a Congress that act, these days, as if foreign policy were a social disease, each blaming the other for the failure to provide major economic assistance and advice to Russia. Over a candlelit dinner last month at Spaso House, the ambassadorial residence in Moscow, Strauss and his wife Helen listened as two Senators -- Republican Robert C. Smith of New Hampshire and Democrat John Kerry of Massachusetts -- agreed that the way to bring American audiences "out of their chairs" these days was simply...
...videotaping experience ranges from disappointing to exciting. Mary and Tom, Chicago investment bankers who checked into a local hotel with just a video camera, were mortified by the way poor lighting and camera angles distorted their overweight bodies. Fred, a professor, and Nina, a schoolteacher, recorded themselves in a candlelit bubble bath, and wound up elated. The Manhattan couple, married 20 years, have filmed three more tub trysts, complete with strawberries and whipped cream...
Parents, Lovers, and Other Problems unfolds in the Dunster House Dining Hall, decorated with enough panache to help you forget the the real setting. The place is transformed into a cabaret--small, candlelit tables dot the floor, and drinks and snacks are served to the audience...