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...fort, Francois might have gone to the fort. He was drawn to the fort in his blackest moods. It was in ruins now, a remnant of the almost-glories of Napoleon III. We often found Francois there leaning against the rocks, making his own comfort out of fantasies of destruction. I circled the slimy stones. He was not there...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: Bombs and Le Bon Dieu | 2/16/1974 | See Source »

...economy, they can now see nothing but uncertainty-and sure enough, the market cannot stand it. A nearly perpendicular drop in prices has sheared a staggering $100 billion off the value of exchange-listed shares in the past six weeks and plunged Wall Street into its blackest gloom in two decades. In brokerage offices, the talk is all of margin calls, possible failure of some big investment houses and actual or potential unemployment for analysts and brokers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STOCK MARKET: The Energy Chill | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

...store contrasts with his reprehensible neglect of his duties at the end. My Uncle Antoine is one of the most accessible of complex works, full of captivating imagery, often most expressive when the dialogue is most scarce, maintaining a slight air of frivolity at all but the blackest moments--and containing a depth and energy as welcome as it may be unexpected...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: The Spirit of Backwoods Quebec | 5/11/1973 | See Source »

...towards the end. Pacino speaks measuredly and quietly, with sudden intervals of rage and continual flashes of humor, and when he talks of descanting on his own deformity or wonders at the blindness that finds him a marv'llous proper man, he means what he says. In even his blackest lies, we sense some sincerity, as though he has indeed determined to prove a villain reluetantly, after sounding his own nature and discovering that he cannot prove a lover...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Hand in Hand to Hell | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...Lyndon Johnson agreed to Israeli aggression and gave it his blessing. Americans know very well that Johnson's rule was one of the blackest, most wasted periods in U.S. history. I hope there will be a brave American who one day will reveal the facts exactly as an American has revealed the facts on U.S. involvement in the Vietnamese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Sadat: A Sort of Whirlwind | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

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