Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dark secret, hidden in the walls of the house permeates the very air. Its force seep, into the minds and the bodies of Miles and Flora, the two unfortunate children. With a clear, sweet soprano voice Flora (Lisa Zeidenberg) sings to her doll and prattles to her governess. Mile (Edmond John Donlon III) appears equally childish and pure. Although he sings rather shakily, not is as boisterous as a high-spirited little boy should be. But he is the center of the evil, and we soon learn that things have been done here that are not good...
Last week the dark side of that life was revealed by the Wall Street Journal in a vivid, 4,000-word expose. The newspaper disclosed not only that Fedders abused his wife, but that he was in financial difficulties for living beyond his means, and that questions still lingered about his role in an alleged cover-up by a former client, Southland Corp., convicted of criminal conspiracy. Fedders acknowledged seven "regrettable episodes" of wife abuse and publicly expressed remorse. But that was not enough to satisfy the White House. At midweek, after 3 1/2 eventful years at the SEC, Fedders...
...were unable to prove, that West had shot to death James and Virginia Campbell, a wealthy Houston couple, in their home in June 1982. Some two months after West met Paris, he proposed to her. Possibly believing he had reached love's last hurdle, West then revealed the dark secret, unaware that his girl was carrying a transmitter monitored by law-enforcement officers. Moments after Paris left West, ostensibly to buy cigarettes, the police swept in and charged him with the murders. They later arrested another of the victims' daughters, who allegedly had promised to pay her then boyfriend West...
Above all, he brought to it a renewed sense of design. Caravaggio's work moves from clutter toward the irreducible: tracing their signs for energy and pathos in the dark, his bodies acquire a formidable power of structure. Sometimes it is very clear; the figure of David holding up the head of Goliath (the Goliath is a self-portrait, a striking rehabilitation of a "monster" as heroic victim) has the abruptness of an ideogram. Elsewhere it is subtler: the geometry of his Saint Catherine consists of two triangles, one formed by the saint's gleaming upper body and dark skirt...
...Caravaggio's quest for strength and legibility reversed itself. He exaggerated the battle between light and dark to such a pitch that the late work became hard to read; its forms turned anxious and flickering, as though snatched from the very throat of darkness. But by then, this confusion had acquired its own expressive integrity as the handwriting of a painter more and more possessed by death. Caravaggio's sense of mortality was the thing his imitators found hardest to copy. But this did not stop the spread of Caravaggism. Within a decade of his death his followers had diffused...