Word: dark
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Real Estate Scrooge, who represented the landlords who were raising rents and evicting tenants, was played by Ian C. MacKinnon, a former candidate for City Council. Clad in a tuxedo, dark sunglasses, a black top hat and a black cloth which covered his face, he stood atop a covered shopping cart...
...public adulation--and its efforts to compartmentalize The Sundays--gradually ceased in the years after Blind, as Wheeler and her cronies ceded the spotlight to similarly-styled groups like The Cranberries and Stereolab. If The Sundays were compared to anyone during that sad, dark period, it was probably another band that had passed into similar "whatever happened to...?" oblivion...
...they prepare to dance in the mountains near the Bacchae, particularly Kadmos in his dress straight out of "Prom Night Horror." When they have to, however, both can instantly become powerful leaders on the brink of destruction. LeBow's Tiresias sends chills through the audience with his dark fore-shadowings to the giggling Maenads. Likewise, the perpetually-talented Epstein manages to make his bitter tirade against Agave ring with the pain of a noble ruler disappointing his people, yet he also lashes out in furious anguish at his childlike daughter for the mess she and her disbelieving son have created...
...hidden not too deeply in Keillor's amusing anecdotes lies a dark, growling edge of conservatism that could border at times on sexism, if one reads deeper into his pithy one-liners. For example, a distant relative is glorified because he, "on his last day, enjoyed beer and victory at cards and held a young woman in his arms." In addition, clever stabs at flaky New-Agers and oversensitive liberal types become dry, overused and almost bitter long before the novel's end. At one point, a ditzy secretary who later claims that John, the narrator, is trying to "power...
Clad in a dark suit and a periwinkle tie, House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.) spoke last night about the key issues confronting the nation and immediate goals that the U.S. should strive...