Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Emotion, and to promote it she made her first video, which debuted last week (with Kris Kristofferson, 45, as her unbilled costar) on Entertainment Tonight. Since what's new is neo and what's hot is retro, the 6-min. clip for the song Left in the Dark features La Streisand as a vampy songstress in an Edward Hopper-style nightclub and in a '50s film noir setting. For Streisand, to compose a slight variation on an old theme of hers, the way she is is never...
...swift strokes. There are similar conversational nuances, inventive use of irony and a longing for an older order, especially spiritual. "Where there was light-from the headlamps of cars, from streetlamps and shop windows-it seemed to be a fuzzy, half-hearted sort of light, almost conspiring with the dark to lose itself in blackness. The windows of the Abbey glowed dimly like old jewels. Behind them, the choir, Dean and Chapter had recently acknowledged that they had followed too much the devices and desires of their own hearts...
...mark a shift towards liberalism in New Hampshire--you can expect all the final clubs to admit women before that happens. But if it nudges the Democrats over 50 seats in the Senate, few members of that beleagured party will care that New Hampshire lives in the political dark ages. The Democrats, from their perches on committee chairs, will be too busy welcoming D'Amours
...OTHER side of the court is Paul Simon who, admittedly, looks more like a college professor than a politician. Complete with floppy ears, dark rimmed glasses and signature bow tie, Simon has authored nine books, the most recent of which examines morally and politics. If Simon's record offered little to applaud, one might be tempted to leave him in his library. But during his 10 years in Congress, Simon has passed more legislation than most of his colleagues and has consistently advocated worthy causes. In the most recent session, Simon sponsored the Missing Children's Act of 1984, which...
...girl, boy gives girl bomb, boy loses girl. And, like a good love story, it ends with boy and girl walking off happily into the sunset. In between the meeting and the losing, however, there's so much plot that if you blink, you might be permanently in the dark. But if you don't mind a movie that makes you think (or if you've read the John Le Carre novel), the film version of Little Drummer Girl is worth the extra effort...