Word: lighted
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Mascetti and Amanda Triossi (Rizzoli; $50). A glittering guide to the ornaments that women -- and men -- have been wearing since 3000 B.C., this book is dotted with small gems: for example, because of the improvement of French domestic candles in the 18th century, evening soirees increased, and brilliant-cut, light-reflecting diamond earrings became de rigueur...
Minerva Ketter lost her home gently, over time, as her listing house sank around her. The ceiling let in rain, the floors let in light, and the front porch gradually sagged until it was almost in the front yard. Finally, she had to abandon her ramshackle house and move in with her father next door...
...time is Jack Weil (Robert Redford), a professional poker player aware that people tend to throw caution (and money) to the winds when their way of life is about to be radically altered. The Ilsa stand-in is Bobby Duran (Lena Olin), who lures Jack into doing a little light smuggling for her and then for the longest time resists being lured into an affair with him. Her reasons are sound: she is grief-stricken when led to believe that her husband (Raul Julia) has been murdered by the Batista regime, and she is in shock after enduring torture...
...Judge Greene's courtroom, Attorney Stuart Gerson of the Justice Department argued that history provides numerous examples of Presidents exercising their powers as Commander in Chief without a formal declaration of war. Thomas Jefferson, he noted, committed the Navy to battle against the Barbary pirates without a green light from the legislature. By contrast, Congress has formally declared war only five times, most recently in 1941. Nothing in the Constitution, Gerson contended, says Congress has to declare war before hostilities begin...
Dumas is far from perfect: its students still test below the Illinois state average; its physical plant is fraying; services are bad. "They send me inferior hamburger, moldy bread, spoiled milk," fumes Peters. But Dumas, with its emphasis on bootstrap help, is light-years ahead of most black public schools in the U.S. "There are several hundred black schools in Chicago alone, and most of them are still doing terribly," says Gary Orfield, a visiting professor at Harvard's graduate school of education...