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...scholarly types fell in love with these preoccupations: with his view of men as weak connivers and women as the wise life force; with the trickery of art (in his dark, delightful comedy The Magician); with his studies of sexual alienation (The Silence), his inside investigations of minds tumbling into madness (Through a Glass Darkly) or muteness (Persona); with his trips into the poignant past (Wild Strawberries); especially with his long battle with God, to which he devoted an entire trilogy. Bergman made anguish sexy, emotional neediness a turn-on. We had no reservation in naming him the world...
...Over the decades he acquired five wives, nine children (that we know of) and plenty of actress-concubines, some of whom he made stars and who helped shape his work. The smoldering sexual allure of young Harriet Andersson inspired Bergman's dark, daring dramas of the early '50s: Summer With Monika and The Naked Night. Bibi Andersson, of the fresh face and buoyant spirit, was his next live-in love; she anchored the mid-'50s films that brought Bergman his international esteem. He met Ullmann in 1964, and wrote Persona - the film that reestablished him as an artistic pioneer...
Draco and the Malfoys, two dark wizards and a drum machine, got the crowd back on their feet. “It’s time to party! Like! You’re evil!” they sang, in light-hearted role-playing. “It’s time to Freak! Out! Some Muggles!,” referencing the books’ term for non-magical people. “It’s time to summon! Up! The Devil!” That last one might not have been in the book...
...fourth book, Harry confronts the enemy masquerading as an ally and witnesses the death of an innocent friend, and in the fifth is tortured by memories of the death and angered by his apparent inability to stop the dark wizard Lord Voldemort’s regaining power. In between, Harry also gets his first crush, his first kiss, and takes his first standardized tests...
...gatherings are simply too risky now, she says. A bomb exploded in a playground in Yala province last month, injuring two youth soccer teams. Prapa doesn't know who the militants are, but feels they're always watching. "We're in the spotlight," she says. "They're in the dark...