Search Details

Word: dark (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...occur, would be a problem. Adomanis tells us that “the Europe we know today will soon be gone,” but why should we care? The Europe our great-grandparents knew—the era of Prussian junkers and Manchester’s dark satanic mills—is likewise gone. The real question is: Are the projected demographic changes bad? Here our prophets fall silent, largely assuming that any change is for the worse, or that the harms of a darker-skinned and more Islamic Europe are self-evident...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: Open the Gates of Vienna! | 5/4/2007 | See Source »

...things for the nose or taste bud, fragrance-and-flavor companies send their scientists on "scent treks." On a recent trip to Papua New Guinea, Roman Kaiser, director of smell research for Givaudan, collected more than 50 samples, including a rare hoya plant. "The scent reminds you of dark chocolate, with olfactory notes rarely found in flowers," Kaiser says. He has amassed more than 2,500 natural scents over the years and has reconstituted more than 450. To create authentic flavorings, Givaudan's researchers go on "taste treks" to gourmet restaurants and popular street stands. On a recent trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Smell of Competition | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...same boundary between the actors and the audience. And that way the audience will have more power.” The audience’s physical closeness to the action only increases their psychological involvement in the show. “[The play is] a very dark, entangled, polluted love story that helps to remind us...that the closer we get to people, the easier it is to get hurt and to be hurt by each other, which is scary, but at the same time very profound,” Wilner says. Wilner understands that the emotional depth...

Author: By Juli Min, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Heavy-Hearted Romp | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...Loeb Mainstage on April 27 and playing during Arts First weekend. But it won’t be your standard classical fare: using Reagan-era music, neon lights, and loads of paint, Birnbaum’s vision attempts to give an old story new life. A dark comedy, the story follows the rakish “Mr. Mirabell” (J. Jack Cutmore-Scott ’10) as he trys to balance love, lust and money. He desires Mrs. Millament (Olga I. Zhulina ’10), but also desires the fortune of her aunt, Lady Wishferit (Alison...

Author: By John D. Selig, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Reagan-Era Restoration | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...Bremer made two decisions in 2003, Tenet alleges, that opened the doors to the insurgency that plagues Iraq today. And kept the CIA in the dark about both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpt: Tenet Strikes Back | 4/29/2007 | See Source »

Previous | 295 | 296 | 297 | 298 | 299 | 300 | 301 | 302 | 303 | 304 | 305 | 306 | 307 | 308 | 309 | 310 | 311 | 312 | 313 | 314 | 315 | Next