Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pivotal roles, recasting reduces the pain and power of the play. Michael Siberry, blond and robust, plays Nicholas as one of nature's optimists, buoyant with pride and hope. The dark, hollowed look and manner of the original Nicholas, Roger Rees, better suggested the character's boundless disillusionment. As Nicholas' battered Dotheboys friend Smike, David Threlfall was recognizably a victim of cerebral palsy, lame and inarticulate, whose great soul struggled to overcome his infirmities. His successor, John Lynch, skitters and jibbers in an otherworldly fashion that never resembles any sympathy-evoking affliction...
...much worth the same, that we're all in the same boat. At sundown I'll haul the raft to a lake in the middle of some town, and watch the lights pop on one by one like signal fires, like the town was findin' its mind in the dark...
...trust him even if they utterly disagree with his principles. Better, perhaps, to deal with a man one trusts than to be fooled and manipulated for the best of ends. Reagan is manifestly a man at home in his own skin, in contrast to, say, Richard Nixon, in whom dark civil wars always seemed to be raging...
...soon develops that both must be part of the triangle, but Brett defines his characters so that any combination of killer and prey seems possible. That is a neat trick, but it is also a persuasive metaphor for Brett's underlying theme: that most of mankind is tortured by dark impulses and that chance plays a major role in determining which people actually commit crimes...
Such fanciful creatures are diversions as a lonely teenager (Jennifer Connelly) wanders the labyrinth in search of the castle where a malefic king (David Bowie) has detained her year-old brother. The maze, of course, is adolescence, and its dark lord is Bowie, the charismatic Kabuki sorcerer who offers his ravishing young antagonist the gilded perks of adult servitude ("Just let me rule you, and you can have everything you want"). With their technical astonishments, Director Henson and Executive Producer Lucas have been faithful to the pioneering Disney spirit. In suggesting the thrilling dilemmas that await a wise child, they...