Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mount Rushmore, but Benjamin Franklin has a position in American mythology that could hardly be loftier. Canny diplomat and dispenser of moral apothegms, scientist and pioneer in electrical experiment and theory, Franklin is everyone's favorite patriot, the kindly uncle of the American Revolution. There was, however, a dark side to the familiar beaming countenance, an aspect that might have come from one of Freud's case histories of an overheated family crucible. This provocative and enlightening account overturns the legend by examining William, Benjamin's only son, born out of wedlock in 1731. Once his father's closest confidant...
...from a bad bump on the head received two days earlier, the President fretted so much that he ignored early exit-poll results and wanted to cancel three important press interviews he had scheduled. At Camp David, the two former movie stars cozy up on a sofa in the dark, holding hands and sharing a bowl of popcorn as they watch good, wholesome films--lately, Local Hero and Phar Lap. Says one aide who has attended the Camp David cinema: "It's like looking at a pair of high school kids...
...jars. And a fifth of Christian Brothers brandy and a fifth of Dark Myers's rum. A small container of nutmeg and two quarts of eggnog...
...Waldemar Chmielewski, a former lieutenant of the Polish secret police, stood up in the defendants' box, a nervous tic on the right side of his face caused his dark mustache to twitch uncontrollably. Chmielewski and three other members of the security forces went on trial two weeks ago in the city of Toruan, 100 miles northwest of Warsaw. They have been charged in last October's abduction and murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a militant supporter of the banned Solidarity trade-union movement. It was Chmielewski's turn to testify last week, and the thought that his life might...
...wildest visions," he noted, having confessed the secret of how beautiful war can seem in the stops between its terrors: "The circular trembling aperture of the French and Belgian searchlights, like a transcendental airplane . . . the amazing apocalyptic sound of the giant cannon . . . A rider at full gallop in the dark . . . Poor pig that I am, I can only live in dreams." War went beyond art and burned out his fantasies. What it left behind was a hard, copious ash of realism, and an unassuageable will to describe what it was to be not just a German but a European...