Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baby to safety. "I saw one man climbing up seats with a small baby in his teeth," he recounted. "It was unbelievable." Cardwell had been trying to break through a window to escape when the man with the baby came up along with two other children. "It was pitch dark and freezing cold," he said. "We took turns rubbing the baby to keep it warm." Finally a helicopter dropped them a line, pulled up the man and child and took them to the hospital...
...ravishing 1900. Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers and Burn!, brimming with political conscience and passion. John Boorman's Exorcist II: The Heretic, a witchy reverie of evil and redemption. Terrence Malick's edgy elegy to heartsick heartland America, Days of Heaven, took on the resonance of some dark folk ballad. And all Sergio Leone's pop-folk epics, from A Fistful of Dollars to Once upon a Time in America, have had their mythic dimensions deepened by Morricone themes. The music and the filmmaking are reciprocal: each makes the other indelible...
...Maltese Falcon with the psychological and intellectual thrills of Rosemary's Baby and Don't Look Now. As Angel progresses deeper into his investigation, he is plunged into the world of voodoo worship and animal sacrifice. He witnesses Epiphany engage in a ritual sacrifice of chickens to the Dark Lord, has recurring hallucinations of orgies and encounters a masked, black-clad creature, culminating in the now infamous scene in which gallons of blood fall on him and young Proudfoot while they screw on his motel room...
...worried about the rise of MTV, the spread of drugs, the power of media, and Reagan's amnesia, allow yourself a purging experience by diving into Pete Davies dark and witty vision of our degenerate future. Even if it doesn't convince you to stop sucking in mind-destroying pop culture stimulants, The Last Election will keep you off the drunken highways...
...dark underbelly of politics, I'm afraid. But to show my honesty I secretly leaked the fact of our involvement in the rumor, and then fired my campaign manager as a show of remorse and desire for fair play...