Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lose her money. Defense lawyers dismiss this as a possible motive, though they concede that the marriage had foundered and that Von Bülow had had an affair, reportedly with New York City Socialite Alexandra Isles, a sometime actress who appeared in the television gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. They contend that Sunny was a pathologically shy woman, who assuaged her demons with alcohol, drugs and compulsive eating, and either deliberately or accidentally caused the coma through her own excesses. Von Bülow, they say, had no need of her money, since he was capable of earning hundreds...
...rare Solidarity poster plastered on the wall of a Warsaw train station last week showed Jaruzelski as a blind man, wearing his customary dark glasses and feeling his way along with a white stick. The mocking caption: LEADER, LEAD US. For all its cruel imagery and satirical intent, the drawing is an apt image of the general's predicament. Although he has subdued all overt opposition by force, Jaruzelski is groping his way, amid formidable problems, toward a very uncertain future for Poland. -By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Warsaw and Johanna McGeary with Haig
...depths of Calcutta's desperate poverty, she was ushered into Mother Teresa's presence and found herself awestruck: "That face is so gorgeous, with its millions of lines. She held my hands and looked at me with those eyes of strength, calm, determination, wisdom. In a dark time, she is truly a light." Except for her personal expenses, Stratas is donating her Met Bohème fees to Mother Teresa...
...eleven-year-old São Paulo waif living his long days in a kind of Dotheboys Hall for juvenile offenders. In another school, pleasing the older boys might mean carrying the water bucket; here it involves stashing dope, spearheading escapes and, above all, keeping his big dark eyes open and his mouth shut. The film is canny enough to reveal the horrors of underage incarceration in Brazil before it turns Pixote and his comrades loose on a jag of snatching purses, rolling drunks, courting death. Thus it suggests that society is a prison of the spirit and freedom...
Over the Edge is set in the American West; The Dark End of the Street in a North Cambridge, Mass., housing project. The children in the first film are from the middle class; in the second, lower class. But they face the same shifting anxieties, the same ominous anomie. Jonathan Kaplan's Over the Edge follows the narrative line of earlier "teen gang" pictures-from idleness to violence, for no other reason than for something to do-but has a special kick. Here are boys and girls 12, 13, 14, precociously aping their elders. It makes the climax...