Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house. Observes Screenwriter Kaufman: "For young people, movies are just foreplay, a cheap date before the back seat of the car." Maybe. But people of every age go to the movies to get out of themselves, to share the intense, expansive communal experience of being in the dark, with the huge screen the only light. That experience was easier to achieve when movie theaters were huge, gaudy palaces with plush appointments and ushers dressed like Ruritanian footmen. Alas, those theaters have been razed or, worse, sliced into half-a-dozen small auditoriums that are about as attractive...
...these days. Somewhere along the way, they managed to cash in the stone, and invest the proceeds in a dreamy little sloop moored off some idyllic island paradise. And gosh darn, everything would be just fine if Joan (Kathleen Turner) just hadn't accepted that offer from Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome Omar-the-Arab (Spiros Focas) to write his biography. Now Jack (Michael Douglas) is all upset--jealous, just like a man--and their blissful little tryst comes to an end as Joan flies off to North Africa to observe Omar in his natural habitat and Jack huffs...
...Brazil, an equally disturbing new film from Python member Terry Gilliam, this darkly comic "Bright Side" philosophy is brought to its ultimate extreme. Using a setting strongly derived from George Orwell's 1984, Gilliam gives us a hero whose world is so dark that he loses the ability to see anything but the bright side...
...America what Rambo's all about anyway? Strong-armed (not strong-minded) men (no women please) showing foreigners (dark-skinned commies to the head of the line) what this nation stands for. Truth, justice, fairness...
...never fear, milk and cookie lovers. The traditional low-fat milk is still winning the war of the thirsty by more than four-to-one tally, according to Harvard Dining Services. Officials say that although chocolate milk drinkers remain a minority, the dark horse milk is here to stay...