Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be steered through the Roosevelt Room, where he will pass a portrait of F.D.R., the first President he called on. Gromyko could find his way in the dark, since he has logged dozens of visits to the Oval Office. When he sits down in front of the fireplace, in one of the Martha Washington chairs, to the President's left, Gromyko will find he is quite an attraction. At least six of the President's top men will be clustered around to weigh every word and interpret every gesture for some glint of the future relations between...
...setting is a 1944 Louisiana army base where Master Sergeant Vernon Waters, leader of an all Black company, is murdered one dark night outside of the camp. The white base commander seeks to quiet a potentially explosive situation, quickly blaming the shooting on the local Klu Klux Klan. But his efforts are undone when the Army sends a Negro military attorney, a polished, Howard University-trained officer, to investigate. Instead of accepting two seemingly culpable white officers as scapegoats, Captain Richard Davenport pushes on with his search. And with integrity and tenacity, he uncovers the true, frightening nature...
...think that Naipaul's rare gift would have earned him a measure of popularity, and they have. But his approach has also made him very controversial, disliked by these who resent his ability to strip away the hope that accompanies development. His dark vision of the prospects for true growth have not won him many fans among those who feel that he condemns the process of national modernization because of its intermediate results...
...gives sand. To Cannes He gives a plush film festival. We get the P.L.O." So the old fellow is up on Yasser Arafat and the contemporary mess in the Middle East? Yes and no. When Heller wants to try for irony, he keeps David in the dark: "I put garrisons in Damascus and in the Golan heights, and I knew that the Syrians would never again be a problem for the children of Israel...
...obviously had something to hide. I gave him my fiver and stepped into the dark back room...