Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Power outages were widespread, leaving homes dark and cold. In Oregon, some 27,000 customers were without power on Friday. Arkansas Power & Light Co. sent out workers with guns to blast ice off tree limbs that were threatening to topple onto electric lines. The cold in Washington, D.C., caused dozens of traffic lights to go haywire, each flashing "as if it had a mind of its own," according to a city engineer...
...worst enemy of truth, according to Boorstin, is to keep knowledge secret. Warlike states, monopolistic guilds, and closemouthed alchemists all conspired to leave outsiders in the dark. Even Leonardo da Vinci held back the progress of anatomy by keeping to himself his detailed drawings and studies of the human body. "...Despite his consummate art, his industry, and his unexcelled powers of observation, Leonardo added only to his own knowledge, and little or nothing to the anatomical knowledge of his time. Nor were his own observations enriched as they might have been. For, as we shall see, the public forum...
Special Bulletin (NBC). Gripping in a way that The Day After was not, this docudrama presented a fictional nuclear crisis as a news event actually in progress. The result was a dark parody of the pontifical way in which the networks package disaster...
...first day of 1984. Through bleary eyes, you tune into television, to be greeted by "Good morning, Mr. Orwell." Oh no, has the British author's dark and malevolent fable of total totalitarianism finally arrived? Not really. Simply a group of avant-gardists greeting the new year with a public television, cross-Atlantic extravaganza dedicated to George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and "the first media prophet and philosopher." That's the view of the program's creator, Video Virtuoso Nam June Paik, 51, who intends to show television as a "liberating" force, not fraught with...
...Pitch Dark by Renata Adler. A sophisticated narrator, nearly indistinguishable from the author, uses anecdote and bits of intriguing conversation to reflect on her mobile and solitary life...