Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie reel of his imagination, he sees himself standing alone in the desert, silhouetted against the moon, swathed in traditional Bedouin robes, a farsighted prophet of Islam and the mighty creator of the Great Arab Nation, stretching from the warm Persian Gulf to the dark Atlantic Ocean--a nation that would eclipse the West in power and glory and purity. Muammar Gaddafi is not a man of modest ambitions. Nor one without a sense of backlighting...
...Libyans to change it and become more careful about using the telephone. "The leaks have caused us a setback," conceded one National Security Agency official last week. "It will now take us more time to break the new codes, and in the meantime, we will be kept in the dark...
...plate, dated 1972. It is just that, and no more: a rabbit skinned for roasting by a Spanish butcher, with its head left on; a glass plate with a scalloped edge; a kitchen table of pine covered with old cream paint, now scarred and stained, with bits of dark wood showing through; a band of gray wall with a mauve undercast. The table occupies a little over two-thirds of the depth of the painting, the wall the rest, and the corpse is huddled not quite in the center of the table. These slight departures from absolute regularity give...
...else has achieved such finesse of tone, such a steely grasp of hallucinatory detail within the ordinary, such a disdain for visual clutter? At their best, the drawings are a mesmerizing conjunction of opposites. On one hand, the patient surface, rubbed and reworked to a silvery bloom punctuated with dark points of attention, anxiously tender and very seductive to the eye; on the other, a kind of silent rawness, a persistent undercurrent of anguish about the worth of what can be seen. It is the very reverse of academic art and the antithesis of illustration...
Leading the forces of chaos were "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight." Wallace became the Spartacus of an American class revolt against the elite and the chic and the powerful. He developed a fine dismissive snarl. "Send them a message," he said, in that thick, dark voice. Half an inch beneath the surface of his words there ran an undercurrent of menace. There was a backwoods defiance in the fire that lit George Wallace up. There was also something, more than something, of the opportunist and the demagogue...