Word: light
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...able to draw in seawater needed to cool the reactors. Automatic systems would have "scrammed" the reactors, pushing control rods into the core and shutting them down. The Kursk, its shattered bow shoved into a furrow of sand and heeling to port, lay silent, without power or heat or light or hope, its 118 souls dead or doomed...
Then it was over. She said she had to get back. She asked the driver to pull over so she could get out. We started pleading for more time. Meet us for dinner? No. Breakfast tomorrow? No. Send you pictures? Please, no. The van stopped at a red light. Somebody opened the door. She kissed Rae on the head, stroked her hair one last time, stepped out, finally let go of her hand and closed the door. The light turned green. We drove off and watched her shrink away from us, dropped off on the corner of Nowhere and Forever...
...continue feeling the love in "Hard Things," the companion 30-second spot, in which Bush outlines his policy differences with Gore by saying as little about them as absolutely necessary. Open-collared, with honeyed light slanting through the windows behind him, as if he's restoring a beautiful old house and just finished setting a dovetail joint, he tells us, "This is a moment in history when we have the chance to focus on tough problems. It's not always popular to say our children can't read. Or Social Security needs improving...
...There will now be a lot of furious trying from a lot of them. B.B.'s doing Reebok. Ramona's doing entertainment journalism. Sean's on "Guiding Light" and "Extra"; Gervase is doing "The Hughleys" and trying out for John Travolta movies. Susan will be doing Metamucil from a truck cab within the month, if that venomous speech didn't take her out of the endorsement game. (It was scary.) Richard - who probably was, as the Internet gossips were saying, putting an addition on his house this summer, the old dog - seems relaxed about it, but he's also pitching...
...abandoned the others in the motor boat and set off in my canoe, casting with a Bush Hog for a time but finally, in a sweet evening light, settling in for a game of silent hide-and-seek with three loons on the empty, mirroring lake...