Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...estimates that slightly more than half of the women with their dark lipstick and mascara-ed eyes are actually going to parties, a figure that is backed up by several other women...
...afflicts Europe. But such anxieties are fortunately not driving the governments of East and West in the wrong direction. They are not trying to stop the movement toward unification. All have formally upheld the German right to self-determination and have pushed to the back of their minds the dark shadows of two world wars. They have promised to unite what they hope will be a new Germany. One way to make certain that the result is a European Germany will be for the Europeans to complete the unification blueprint they agreed on in Ottawa last week...
...breast a storm of anguish and violence so terrible that she had at times, when she was alone and longing to 'break down,' to clutch her breast." Terrible, for that matter, is a favorite word. So are appalling, awful, horrible, dreadful and all forms of the word dark. "These dreadful ideas, horrors from the past now poised to darken the future" is typical of Dame Iris at her most overwrought...
...been certified as a top-drawer sidewalk superintendent for his presidential library, now a huge hole in the ground. He roams the 34th floor of Fox Plaza, high above Century City, trains binoculars on a tip of his Bel Air home, visible 3 miles away, and mutters dark incantations against a new high-rise going up in his field of view. He leans down with pride to show visitors the model of the Spanish-type library building to be completed in 1991 with deep vaults for his 44 million pieces of paper...
...typical cost: $20 for a 45-minute session. While skeptics dismiss the machines as faddish electronic tranquilizers, many users swear by the technology's ability to ease stress. Several companies have brought out home models of stress-reduction units, costing from $99 to $600. Many sets include earphones, dark glasses with tiny bulbs inside and a computerized box that controls light-and-sound sequences...