Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some viewers might be surprised by the movie's closing shot: The boy, sneaking back into his house after the party, is discovered by his father. The man pulls off his belt, preparing to punish his son. The final frame reveals the dark-skinned boy, his eyes bulging out in fear. Hudlin was advised that this shot might be offensive to some Blacks, a remainder of the stereotype of the bug-eyed Black slave afraid of the whip...
...adventure in the big city," as Elliott puts it, has ended happily enough but not without a dark chapter. On top of Harvard's standard academic and social pressure, the visitor from the Midwest had to struggle with a mysterious illness that caused debilitating headaches and depression junior and senior years. His ultimately successful battle against the ailment, and in particular his self-diagnosis, only confirm the power of Bremen-style tenacity: "You just figure that there's got to be some way to beat that problem...
...shot in the dark" hit its mark, and Elliott trekked east, "convinced I would get all C's, if not all D's, and that there would be a good chance that I would fail out altogether." He quickly overcame his fears with a plain old all-American effort: "I studied my rear end off." He amassed mammoth outlines of lectures and readings, particularly in American history, which became a new obsession. "I loved it once I got used to it. It was just exceedingly exciting. I ended up doing quite well for a guy from Bremen...
...exposed to during a summer factory job he held after sophomore year. The chronic pain never subsided until this spring, despite various treatments, and pushed Elliott into a state of clinical depression. "The pain was bad," he recalls without visible emotion, "but your mental state gets so dark that everything that had looked good is gray, and everything that had been bad is pure black...
...20th, able to bring to his work the array of insights about perception and psychology that distinguished contemporaries like Ernst Gombrich or Adrian Stokes. Clark was a pre-Freudian and, though he was too wise to try to dismiss the sort of art that comes from the dark side of the mind, he felt ill at ease with extreme expressions. Pascal's dictum that the ego is detestable-Le moi est haïssable-was his motto, and he lived up to it with guarded mandarin decorum...