Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visitor prepared to leave, Jimmy Carter headed back to his word processor. The house was still silent and dark. He began rewriting a section of the book that describes his closest aides. Some who had read the draft had told him that it was much too soft on them. Engrossed in the work, he pushed himself well past his usual 10:30 bedtime. Day after day, he applied to the book the same drive and ruthless self-discipline he had brought to the presidency. Back home in Plains, he worked as if his very survival as a man depended...
...personal letter from Reagan. Though the Chinese received Bush with personal expressions of friendship, neither his entreaties nor Reagan's letter changed any minds in Peking. Deng underscored the seriousness of the Taiwan issue by asserting that he hoped Bush's visit would "dispel the shadows and dark clouds that hang over our relations...
...small Minneapolis TV newsroom was dark with disuse when the old gang-Mary Richards and Lou Grant, Murray Slaughter and Sue Ann Nivens, Ted and Georgette Baxter-came back one last time for reminiscence and rue. As clusters of the faithful were doing in living rooms and the classier pubs across the country, the WJM team had assembled to lament the untimely passing of some fine old friends: Louie De Palma, Doctor Johnny Fever, Detective Harris, Mork from Ork. With a few swipes of TV executives' pens, four of the best comedy series of the late 1970s-Taxi, WKRP...
...story of Marguerite and Armand unfolds, brief and mesmerizingly beautiful. The clip also possesses an innocence, a sweetness of spirit, that this 1982 blockbuster never even tries to capture. For a production that means to bring children back to the movies, dragging their parents with them, Annie has a dark, dour, meanspirited tone-Oliver Twist as retold by Fagin...
...some choice curiosities. A Henry James dream begins in fear and ends in exhilaration as the author of The Turn of the Screw and other ghost stories chases a terrified phantom down a great hall that resembles a gallery in the Louvre. The unconscious of most writers remains a dark nursery of anxiety and chaos. But James, one of the most controlled novelists in history, can symbolize discipline and order in his sleep. This is the triumph of art at its most intimidating...