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...sexually possessive fathers, insane children, vindictive doctors, the hatred of the rich for the poor and, in the relationship of Reagan's character Drake McHugh and his friend Parris (Robert Cummings), a hint of homoeroticism. Reagan flawlessly navigates Drake's descent from rube bonhomie to maturing resolve to blackest despair, then up to a final splash of sunlight. Reagan considered the film his top accomplishment and never tired of screening it. In 1948 Wyman sued for divorce, charging extreme mental cruelty. But she had another complaint: "I just couldn't stand to watch that dismal Kings Row one more time...
...Education was the blackest value of all. Getting an education was defeating white racists,” he says...
Gates said the death of Newman, whom he has called “the blackest scholar I know,” a significant loss to the field of African-American studies...
...saga of state intimidation and years of house arrest seemed over. But special police in camouflage gear stormed the funeral procession, beat pall-bearers and stole the Ayatollah's corpse, which fell from its coffin twice during the scuffle. "If it's true, it will be among the blackest moments in the Islamic Republic's history," whispered one aghast cleric in Tehran. Black-clad mourners filled Qom's Chaharmardan Street as they proceeded toward Shirazi's home. In his will, the cleric asked to be buried temporarily in Qom until it was possible to be removed permanently to the holy...
There are times when words don’t come easily. In the blackest days of our history, we see events so unspeakably bad that the pursuit of objective commentary, the articulation of the reasonable position, the construction of the well-argued response all prove elusive...