Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from his office: his career as a movie actor and Governor of California gave him enough of a sense of accomplishment that he did not need the presidency to consider himself a success. Accordingly, he shows no trace of the driven behavior that manifested itself in Richard Nixon's dark humors, Lyndon Johnson's frequent tirades and Jimmy Carter's agonizing self-doubt. Reagan feels no need to brood alone over decisions. Says Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver: "I think it is interesting that he does not have a hideaway office like Nixon and Carter." The intensity...
...stuff of tragic drama; in Lausanne. Seven years after their wedding in 1921, the strong-willed Queen divorced her recklessly unfaithful husband, and later entered a quiet European exile, declaring: "My life has been a sad one for years, and now I am going out into the dark:" Moved by her dignity and grace, Rumanians urged her to resume her royal duties, but thereafter she served only as an unassuming Queen Mother and adviser to her son Michael, who was King for seven years until the 1947 Communist takeover...
...theatrics, Erté has always been a prodigiously hardworking artist who, for nearly seven decades, has spent virtually every night, all night, at his desk. He habitually sketches and paints in a dark room under a single spotlight, listening to recordings of Beethoven and Schubert. Since 1935 he has lived in an apartment in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, with a succession of cats as companions. "Being alone is vitally important for me and my work. I'm like a cat, solitary, independent and quiet by nature," he says. To keep in shape he works regularly with weights...
...system works and they catch the thieves, the Hansens give poachers a couple of options, in the spirit of the season: "We can either take them to court, or they can pay the price of the tree," says Mrs. Hansen. "The price goes up to $50 a tree after dark," she adds with a smile...
...which are enhanced in this production by Montresor's ghostly, haunting light design. Andrei (Thomas Derrah), the three sisters' only brother, and his fiancee, the inhospitable Natasha, kiss in the foreground while everyone else in the cast trots offstage in a long line, their faces illuminated and their bodies dark against the back wall...