Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This success is due chiefly to the rich, seductive vocals of Linda Hopper and Lynda Stipe. Whether they are reciting rhymes like "One-two buckle my shoes" in flat monotone, or creating beautiful, dark harmonies in "Choukoutien" and "Elaine's Song", Hopper and Stipe manage to embrace both the earthy and unearthly, without sounding arch or immature...
...Weren't there times when she, child of a dark race, wanted to pull the whole world down with her, to avenge what it had made of her - and all like...
...soon displaying his haunted good looks and claret baritone on the London stage and screen. In scores of romantic melodramas, from The Seventh Veil (1945) to The Deadly Affair (1967), he polished his image as the ruthless lover. Behind his sophisticated sadism there was often the suggestion of a dark past and a doomed future, shrouding such troubled protagonists as the Irish fugitive in Odd Man Out (1946), Rommel in The Desert Fox (1951) and The Desert Rats (1953), and the drunken Norman Maine in A Star Is Born (1954). As his matinee-idol features aged, his performances became comically...
...church. "The Bible says there is great rejoicing in heaven over the recovery of a lost sheep," wrote one correspondent, "but there is no suggestion that the sheep was promoted to shepherd." Perturbed Scots have also raised practical questions: Would lonely widows want Nelson paying a call after dark? How could he comfort the family of a murder victim or preach on motherhood? But Nelson has many staunch defenders, who have pointed out that the young Moses committed murder and that St. Paul approved the killing of Christians before his conversion. "Surely Christ is still Redeemer," argued another letter writer...
Children can deal with that (although they probably like the dark things which lurk in the swamp better), but what can they be expected to make of things like the second gate to the South Sage? The South Sage gate is a mirror which reflects a person's inner self. Although not a physical barrier, it is an effective deterrent because "most men, when confronted with their true inner nature, run away screaming." True, perhaps, but very much over the heads of eight-year-olds and too simplistic for their parents. At such times the movie's audience and message...