Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the clothes are ceremonial, although the occasion does not have to be grand. Some of the most elegant dresses are of indigo cotton, appliqued with gold, made to be worn during India's harvest festival in the late fall, when the dark of the sky is deepest. There are social nuances in every garment, highborn or not. A man's white cotton overblouse can be tied in 58 ways, each with its own social connotation. The knots at the waist of a courtesan's skirt could be so intricate that only she could undo them: fashion...
...next big breakthrough came in 1950, when Fred Whipple, a Harvard astronomer, proffered a detailed model for the anatomy of a comet. In a delightfully evocative phrase, Whipple declared that comets are "dirty snowballs," dark conglomerates of mostly frozen water stippled with rocky fragments, dust particles and trace elements. As one of these snowballs swoops toward the sun, said Whipple, solar radiation begins to vaporize ice and frozen gases on the comet's sunward surface by a process called sublimation. The gases, carrying dust with them, form a light-reflecting coma that makes the comet visible from earth...
...Holmes is also sanitized in a way that robs this film of the deliciously dark underside that dominated Doyle's work and, in films, the wonderful Seven Percent Solution. Holmes here is an adolescent Bond armed with a quiverfull of trademark one-liners and an evanescent girlfriend to give him something to worry about...
Admittedly, it takes a lot of elbow grease to put a shine on a play that seems well-worn even before the curtain goes up. The Players took a gamble in dragging The Sorceror off some dusty, dark shelf out into the limelight. Yet at least they could have done it with polish...
...fact that all the songs on Bob Dylan's Empire Burlesque did not sound like "Dark Eyes...