Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles cop embarks on a dark soliloquy: "If I don't have a piece [a gun], I feel naked. That's why I became a cop, I think, because I got to carry a piece. In Nam, killing was a job, you look at somebody like a piece of hamburger. I just feel like telling someone who's bothering me, 'You know, I could blow your ass away.' I walk away ... What the hell am I doing here? I don't think we lost. Am I weak? What did I do wrong? I did my job ... The concrete we laid...
...from the White House. It is a vet's version of the I.R.A. protest, designed to coerce some attention to victims of Agent Orange. Over the July Fourth weekend some vets planned a demonstration on the site in Washington where a Viet Nam memorial will be built ? a dark, somberly graceful V of granite bearing the names of the 57,692 Americans who died in the war. It took the best part of a decade to get America to want that memorial...
Along with classics, the company has unveiled many new ballets, chiefly by Ashton and current Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, 51. On this trip the Royal brought three works new to U.S. audiences: Ashton's Rhapsody, a glittering display originally created for Mikhail Baryshnikov; MacMillan's Gloria, a dark ode to the generation killed in the Great War, set to the bright strains of Poulenc; and Isadora, also by MacMillan, a tasteless, breast-baring melodrama about Modern Dance Pioneer Isadora Duncan, with a pastiche score by Richard Rodney Bennett. In addition, the Royal performed, for the first time...
FROM WHAT WE can gather today, life in the Dark Ages was no picnic. You had your disease, your ignorance, your intermittent famine. There was little interracial sensitivity. Trees seemed to have lacked leaves altogether, and you could never get the muck off your shoes, even indoors. Kings were greedy and whined a lot. At the first sign of trouble, they threw up their hands and sacrificed a virgin or two. The peasants, weakened by long hours of hunting for roots and small rodents, mustered little culture of their own, preferring to spend their weekends puttering around the hovel...
...solid bamboo slopes, and then the heavy forest again sculptured into peaks and hollows until they crossed and hills sloped down and then another plain, hot now, and purple brown, bumpy with heat and Compie looking back to see how he was riding. Then there were other mountains dark ahead. --Hemingway. "The Snows of Kilamanjaro...