Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the lights flip on in a room infested with cockroaches, they all jockey for the nearest dark hole. This is because roaches are nocturnal, says Gary F. Alpert, an entomologist who gauges and makes recommendations on University cockroach problems. "If you see them during the day, you know you've got problems," he says...
...specialist in Soviet intelligence with Russian-language training, Nicholson was nearing the end of his three-year tour of duty in Potsdam. Accompanied by Sergeant Jessie Schatz, Nicholson left Potsdam at lunchtime Sunday in a dark green Mercedes bearing an American flag. Both were dressed in camouflage fatigues, and Nicholson carried a set of powerful binoculars and a Nikon camera. They drove about 100 miles north to an area outside the town of Ludwigslust, the site of a training camp for a Soviet tank regiment of the 2nd Guards Division. The Soviets claim that the pair drove onto prohibited territory...
...directed by "foreigners." Be it Sunrise or The Best Years of Our Lives, Fury or Flashdance, Hollywood movies have seen their energy and conscience reflected through the fond, critical eyes of European directors. Be grateful to these immigrant artists; they are among the last adventurers into the dark, hard regions of the American soul...
DIED. George London, 64, commanding bass-baritone with a rich, dark-hued voice and the dramatic presence to convey the menace of Scarpia in La Tosca, the majesty of Wotan in The Ring and the elegance of Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro; after a long illness; in Armonk, N.Y. He found success quickly, with critically praised debuts at Europe's leading opera houses and New York City's Metropolitan. In 1960 he became the first American to sing Boris Godunov at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. In 1967 a paralyzed vocal cord cut short his career; he turned...
Schickel, a TIME Cinema critic, ruefully considers all aspects of celebrity, including the dark facet of notoriety. John W. Hinckley Jr. stands as an exemplar, a recipient of that "wildly parodistic version of celebrity treatment that is accorded the criminal who has assaulted a well-known person. He gets a police escort and a motorcade . . . For the first time in his hitherto anonymous life people will be curious about his history, his thoughts. In due course, his ravings may find their way into print. Or he will have his story told by a famous novelist...