It was still golden fall then, fairly warm, but I feared he was right.

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Babs was what Diana, God help us, might be thirty years hence high-heeled, ceramicized, liposucted, devaricosed, her golden fall of hair as shiny and hard as peanut brittle.

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"This is not a time for checks and balances, " a close associate of the prime minister told me in confidence in the autumn of 2010, as we sipped the golden wines of Tokaj and watched the golden leaves fall in the gathering dusk.

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His gorgeous music in "At Sunset" is lit with the golden rays of a fall afternoon slipping away into twilight.

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As historian of science Stanley Jaki spent his life documenting, the pagan world view was one of endless cycles, of oscillations, of rise and fall, golden ages of glory, bronze ages of decline, iron and stone ages of despair, with no genuine permanent progress.

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And although research by Ramesh Khurana of the Sloan School of Management suggests that top executives are fired rather more often these days, they still tend to leave with options and pension rights intact and a comfortable golden parachute to soften the fall.

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Most impressive of all was Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Clifford Odets's "Golden Boy, " a 19-character play about the rise and fall of an ambitious young boxer that was originally produced on Broadway in 1937.

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