Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exposition, quiet as a Sunday-school teacher's lesson, is over. The storyteller, in the fullness of his craft, has struck, and the spell is on, as surely as it was when Homer conjured up a fleet of ships on a wine-dark sea bound for the walls of Troy...
...anyway. Adan told him it was against health rules; if opened to the public, it would not remain clean. Could this have touched the consuming rage Abbott had written about? He quietly asked Adan to step outside to "talk this over." The younger man agreed. Around the dark street corner, a knife appeared. Adan was stabbed in the chest, in almost exactly the way that Abbott had described in his book...
...forced landing on her noggin. Under such circumstances, photos sometimes catch fleeting moments when a kind of uncertainty, even a suggestion of strain, seems to flicker across her face. Royals do have a peculiar knack for looking out of it, and when Charles drove off from Ascot in his dark blue Aston Martin with Diana at his side, both had the slightly dazed look of a couple who had just scored big on Let's Make a Deal...
...kitchen-equipment field can drop by the store and have a look at the list of some 300 desired items, which include omelette and sauté pans, salt and pepper mills in natural wood, dishes for casseroles and soufflés, 24 champagne glasses, 18 highball tumblers, a dark green tablecloth and two shocking-pink lamps...
...nicely with John Lounsbery's sleek menace-Cruella in One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Alex Alligator in Fantasia. That film, of course, was the great test of the studio's range and included such marvelous, unprecedented imagery as Wolfgang Reitherman's massed battling dinosaurs and the dark demonism of Vladimir Tytla's work on the Night on Bald Mountain sequence...