Word: dark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dining by candlelight at Wrap Culture," said owner Brian Lesser. With gas cooking equipment, Wrap Culture continued serving, though employees worked in the dark...
...there is an additional aspect to the Mormons' spectacular industry and frugality. Their faith, like several varieties of American Protestantism, holds that Jesus will return to earth and begin a thousand-year rule, this glory preceded by a period of turmoil and chaos. During the dark years, church members understand that it is their destiny to sustain a light to help usher in the kingdom to come. In their preparations to do so, they shame even the most avid of secular survivalists. Church members are advised to keep one year's food and other supplies on hand at all times...
...near the end of our rope? One man thinks so. "When I look at the sky," he says, "I only see what has disappeared." This could be Godard, musing on an art form near exhaustion. Yet he gives the lie to this cynicism in scene after scene of dark beauty. Could he be not the Picasso of cinema but its Mozart...
...issue of constant concern, this movie was really about food. The craft service table was a table laden with food, a constantly evolving landscape of savories designed to keep the cast and crew pleasantly satisfied in the six-hour gaps between meal times. There were bowls of dark red cherries and bright nectarines, boxes of pastries and muffins, bagels and lox, fresh blended fruit smoothies. Then came the mid-morning snack--perhaps shrimp cocktail, buffalo wings, fried jalapenos, mozzarella, basil and roasted pepper sandwiches. And that was all before lunch...
...much more credible would that movie be today if a veteran journalist--me, for instance--showed up for the finale on the tarmac. "Ted, I think--yes, that is Victor Laszlo approaching the airplane... He seems to be with two other people... There's a woman, a very attractive dark-haired woman, and... I believe the man wearing the trench coat is the proprietor of a popular gathering place here in Casablanca who goes by the name of Rick... No, Ted, no last name is available to us. It's just Rick. You know, like Madonna or Roseanne... Now Rick...