Anxious casino executives were pleading with Higgins to help fend off the rolling blackouts that were hitting California: A dark half-hour on the Strip could mean tens of millions of gaming dollars lost, not to mention a security nightmare.
There are herringbone and mahogany-accented floors, dark wood wainscoting on the walls, stained-glass skylight windows and coffered ceilings.
He has attempted to etch-a-sketch an issue that inevitably leaves an un-erasable dark shadow on the screen.
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Ten billion light-years distant, Mingus will help shed light on so-called dark energy, the force that appears to be speeding up cosmic expansion.
Beer stains on the dark-green corduroy, which her mother would detect, if she sniffed at them.
Later, in the near-dark, we sat on the screened porch watching the fireflies.
Even a fake marriage to Bridey Taylor filled his heart with unaccountable joy, and he went home after school and put on his dark-gray recital suit and a tie.
As Friday's service began, three Sikh musicians in dark turbans sat cross-legged on the ground next to a row of six coffins and large, framed photos of the dead.
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Pictures Home Entertainment now delivering The Dark Knight Rises on Blu-ray and DVD, fans can see just how Nolan went about bringing the culmination of his Batman story to the big screen.
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In the three months that followed, the production of scripted television fare, including Desperate Housewives on Disney-owned ABC and The Office on General Electric-owned NBC, has gone dark, with several film projects to follow.
She does not bother to put make-up on her wan face, with its dark-circled eyes and down-turned mouth.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Dressed in a dark blue suit on a stage swathed in red velvet and Mexican flags, Lopez-Obrador was presented with a presidential sash and took an oath of office where he promised to act in the national best interest.
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Yesterday, Skyfall opened in China to enormous numbers, and it should finish its run as the seventh highest-grossing movie in history, bumping The Dark Knight Rises down to number eight on the all-time list.
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Despite its apparent extremism, the parliamentary faction of Mr Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party of Russia often votes with, rather than against, the Yeltsin government, and Mr Zhirinovsky's public statements, invariably laced with dark humour, sometimes verge on self-parody.
The combination of a minimalist musical backing and cheers buried deep in the mix serves to frame the song as a come-on proffered in an impossibly dark nightclub.
It's a humid afternoon, and the biggest soccer superstar of his generation is sitting in a windowless room in the basement of a New York City loft, dressed in slim gray jeans and a white T-shirt revealing the dark sleeves of tattoos on his forearms.
When Hogwarts Castle is besieged by Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and his hordes of Death Eaters, the brave Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and his loathsome nemesis face off, going wand-to-wand on staircases, in dark chambers, and in courtyards, as the magic rays lunge back and forth like lightning bolts.
Perhaps, however, it is time to let the French, as well as other corners of market-averse Europe, in on a dark secret.
The pretty, dark-haired Funicello was 13 when she gained fame on "The Mickey Mouse Club, " a kids' variety show that consisted of stories, songs and dance routines.
"He's thoughtful, he's articulate, he's handsome, he doesn't fit any of the stereotypes of the dangerous dark-skinned black male that people see every day on television, " Mr Westen said.
It shows the elder Mr. Cuomo sitting with his legs crossed, in a dark suit with a red-striped tie, flanked on either side by the American and New York state flags.
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Its 54 rooms line a rabbit warren of dark-wood-paneled corridors and spiraling staircases I had to ask the staff for directions on several occasions that give the place an air of rakish glamour.
The result is an all-star cast of guest artists on Dark Night, including The Shins' James Mercer (who most recently worked with Danger Mouse on the Broken Bells album), Julian Casablancas of The Strokes and Iggy Pop, each of whom offers his own interpretation of the Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse songs.
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He is thin and nervous, with light sprays of acne on his cheeks and a fuzz of dark-blond hair.
This scenario is commonly referred to as 'head-lighting' because it looks like the dark space on the road between the headlights of a car.
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The box-like eight-floor structure had dark brown bricks as facing tiles on the outside walls, a style that became popular in Shanghai in the 1930s.
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But Whistler makes for a long, expensive and potentially stressful daytrip, especially on dark winter evenings when the winding Sea-to-Sky Highway can be tricky to negotiate in a car.
In July 2004, on a dark Moscow street, Paul Klebnikov--the American editor of FORBES RUSSIA and one of the leading investigative reporters in business journalism--was shot nine times with a semiautomatic Russian Makarov pistol.
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