Word: haze
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stud but to serve as a corporate symbol with Sonny. The horse is not a boozer, but he is on tranquilizers and steroids to ease him through his form of celebrity life. When Sonny's outrage at what is being done to Rising Star burns through his cynical haze, he decides to kidnap the horse and return him to a wild state more suited to his nature...
WASHINGTON GOV. DIXY LEE RAY is one tough woman. Very early on the morning of October 4--as the haze lifted over Olympia--she was tougher than usual. Standing in front of a small group of reporters, Ray announced that she had shut down the Hanford, Wash., radioactive waste dumping site. A spot check of trucks carrying sludge into the state had revealed serious violations of federal regulations on transporting hazardous materials...
Harvard's memories of last year's encounter will supply an additional motive: revenge. With 1:14 left in the game and Harvard Stadium enveloped in a bizarre indigo haze, the Crimson's Gary Bosnic missed a 30-yd. field goal to seal a Brown win. The Bruins had pulled ahead with a two-point conversion just 2:57 earlier...
...true love never runs smooth. At last, David ends in jail, for breaking parole, if not for shattering all the lives around him. Jade vanishes into the oblivion of an unknowable domestic life with another man, a subsiding into reality that is as poignant as the marriage of Dolores Haze at the end of an earlier novel of obsessive love, Lolita...
American bands don't seem to have the staying power of the English. Of the great American bands of the 1960s, only the Grateful Dead remain, and they're rapidly fading into an overproduced haze of disco in their studio albums. Oddly, it's Neil Young--the most inconsistent artist around, hopping from drunken, off-key singing on one album to sugar-coated acoustic pap on another--who has brought out one of his best albums, more than a decade and a half into his career...