Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grey dull Christmas Eve day; the lights are showing on the cars so it will soon be dark. It's light enough for me to see the wee birds in the garden devouring bread. I've given the dogs, goats and hens their din-dins so they are all replete. Frances and I went X-mas shoppping in Kirkcaldy yesterday, not without its being fraught with danger and adrenalin inducing moments...
...about fifteen minutes later. She hadn't put her shoes on yet and her white cotton socks were obvious against the dark floor...
...picture in his yearbook shows him standing under a white chef's hat. He graduated in 1977 and soon got a job as a cook, first at Reardon's, a local pub owned by a cousin, and then at the Driftwood restaurant, where he met Carol DiMaiti, a dark- haired, lively waitress and the only daughter of Giusto DiMaiti, who tended bar there...
...World Society, a nonprofit organization that produces and distributes programming on environmental issues. A year later, he launched the Goodwill Games to foster better relations between the superpowers following two Olympic boycotts. TNT has aired such advocacy films as Nightbreaker, an antinuclear drama starring Martin Sheen, and Incident at Dark River, in which Mike Farrell (who produced the movie) plays a man whose daughter is killed by toxic waste dumped by a local factory. Currently in production is Captain Planet, a cartoon show for kids about a superhero who fights environmental villains. And Turner's new publishing unit has just...
...whatever persuasion, should be injecting his political agenda into programming. Though CNN's news coverage remains untainted, Turner's views are reflected in a variety of entertainment fare, from the relatively mild pro-environment messages of Jacques Cousteau's specials to more overtly polemical TV movies like Incident at Dark River. "We never said we were going to be totally balanced," notes Turner. Still, when compared with timid network programming and a PBS schedule that has been hamstrung by conservative corporate underwriters, Turner's up-front approach is refreshing...