Word: light
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...hallucinations of kitchen-sink conspiracy), treated Nixon as a complex and in some ways sympathetic figure. H.R. Haldeman had it about right when he compared Nixon to "a multifaceted quartz crystal. Some facets bright and shining, others dark and mysterious. And all of them constantly changing as the external light rays strike the crystal...some smooth and polished, others crude, rough, and sharp...
...padded away, and I sat for a few minutes in my gown, feeling mortal, the way you do if you're 57 and scantily clad, sitting in bright light. I could imagine that a pea-size tumor in my innards had sprouted and sent evil tendrils shooting through the lymph nodes, and now dense jungle growths had a grip on my vitals and in a few months people would sit in an Episcopal church and softly weep for me and then have a nice lunch. I was almost to the scattering of the ashes when the doctor walked...
...Cube, landing this month in a computer store near you, is an 8-in. block of brushed steel encased in transparent, light-catching plastic. With silver wires feeding it from beneath, it looks like a floating digital brain, and certainly qualifies as an objet d'art. When I wasn't gawking at my test model, I was groping it. I had to pluck the motherboard-and-hard-drive core from its housing just to make sure there weren't any dilithium crystals hidden within (instant disassembly is one of the Cube's neater features...
...curries and goat's-head pepper soups. Unlike most capitals, the city - with a population of 400,000 - has little in the way of fancy restaurants outside of its two big hotels with those exotic-sounding names: Hilton and Sheraton. Like most major capitals, it has a flourishing red-light district...
...from Hope, prefers to look at how far Nigeria has come instead of how far it has yet to go. "Now at last you have your country back,'' Clinton told the nation, noting that Nigerians are electing their own leaders, tackling corruption, freeing the press and shedding light on human rights violations. "You have beaten such long odds to get this far," he said. "I am certain America will walk with you in the years to come...