Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, they had spent eight hours in an MSHA safety seminar. "You still find a terrible fatalism out there," says Joseph Brennan, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association. "An attitude that says, 'This is mining, you have to expect accidents.' " More and more, in dark hollows all over central Appalachia, that fatalism is having disastrous consequences. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Ken Banta/Mink Branch
There are plenty more, and Bellow again demonstrates his keen sense of how all these disparate people are thrown, indeed, bonded together over huge distances and years. Even in this his "dark" book. Bellow shows a strong instinct for seeking out and lauding the crumbs of humanity he finds in the interstices of an inhuman world. The appearance of crowds of Valeria's friends at her funeral dressed in the threadbare finery they saved from the pre-way years is an occasion for quiet joy. And in the give-and-take between Corde and his wife. Bellow demonstrates his acute...
...dark Boston pizza parlor, before some 50 spectators, Lawrence S. Turtel '82 Thursday night took on 15 competitors, and 21 and-a-half chewy slices of pizza, and eight seemingly endless minutes later...
...sequence shooting on a movie set disturbs her: "You have to be a clerk. You have to file, recall - 'When was this part of the scene last shot?' The theater is to drool. You rehearse. You're not playing poke-in-the-dark." This is only her third theatrical film in a 35-year acting career...
...similarly reflected in the dance, which includes some rapid-fire footwork for D'Amboise inspired by the rat-a-tat-tat of the piano. Paradoxically, Robbins is most, and least, successful with his extended bagatelle in the second movement. Into a vivid world of women - the girls in dark red, Calegari and Kistler in brightest white - Robbins suddenly injects the dark, powerful presence of Mel Tomlinson, effecting a stark, dramatic contrast. He then spoils the mood by having Tomlinson and Calegari dance a lazy, dull pas de deux...