Word: fireworks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Customers such as Iran and Pakistan, who both bought dozens of North Korean Rodongs, are bound to like the look of this new 1,240-mile-range Daepodong -- which is literally twice the missile the Rodong was. Kim Jong Il, soon to be installed as president, has a nice firework for his inauguration. And North Korea's starving millions -- well, they get the satisfaction of seeing their nation trying to establish itself as a regional power. "Plainly," says Thompson, "this is one of the world's most loony nations...
...Even," he said, "by the light of an exploding firework...
...wedding approached, Diana, with Charles beside her, spoke on TV. Describing a gift collage from her kindergarten students, she said, "Oh, well, it's the firework display that's going to happen on Tuesday, the one that I'm not going to... I'm going to be tucked up in bed, I think, early night...
...creating the speckled, radically colored world of Fauvism at Collioure in the south of France; in the great "decorative" paintings of 1908-12 like Conversation; in the astoundingly bare and mysterious French Window at Collioure, 1914; and so on to the palm tree that, like a firework in the garden, fills the window of Interior with an Egyptian Curtain, 1948, its explosive light seeming to cast an inky black shadow under the bowl of fruit. The room is culture; the window frames nature; it is a kind of picture-within-a-picture, another trope that Matisse was partial...