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...birds-and-the-bees” moments. The Cleft, by Doris Lessing Cleft sentence, cleft palate, cleft chin, or the Cleft of Venus? The big, black, water-colored bird doesn’t help with the ambiguity. However, what it does suggest is a topical treatment of an ominous, dark, and tenuous subject. Wings outstretched and beak ever so sharp, the dark bird is fierce and threatening. Yet the blotches of water soften the animal’s shape and remind us that this is, alas, a work of fiction. Nobel laureate Doris Lessing’s name is megalomaniacally...
...their new compilation album “Sawdust,” assails the listener with disjointed melodies and varied vocals. It gets better with each listen and should eventually win over those who are disaffected by their newfound gloom. Set in an abandoned house, the video immediately fits the dark and disturbing music. Half-lit figures and faces shrouded in mist create an unnatural, drugged-out feeling, making the whole thing feels like a séance. Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, wanders around seemingly deserted rooms and communes with the rest of the band. He looks pretty messed...
...August, the dark horse had enough support to generate 2,587 votes at the Ames straw poll, a fund-raising fandango for the Iowa GOP at which candidates pay to have their supporters attend. Huckabee finished a distant second behind free-spending Romney, while Giuliani and McCain skipped the event entirely. But veteran pols noted that Huckabee's tally exceeded the number of tickets he bought--speculating that people were taking Romney's freebies but casting their ballots for Huckabee...
...arrives in theaters today amidst a firestorm of publicity concerning The Catholic League’s calls for a national boycott. Widely considered to be the antithesis to the über-Christian C.S. Lewis’s tales of Narnia, Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy is filled with veiled denunciations of religion (and Catholicism in particular). In the books, the very epitome of evil is the Magisterium, an organization that mirrors the Catholic Church in its hierarchy and dogmatism...
Several Harvard students were violently abducted yesterday in front of the Science Center by men wearing dark suits and Ray-Bans. The students were denied the right to petition for grievances...