Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only pity those who say turning on the lights at Wrigley is only a hop, skip and a jump away from turning every stadium in the country into a domed monstrosity. Paranoia is an unattractive trait. If it rained as often as it gets dark outside, like every single day, than maybe we'd need domed stadiums. But it doesn...
True to the genre, Romero runs clever twists on mandatory horror-movie citations like the Psycho shower sequence (Mrs. Bates is a monkey) and The Old Dark House climax (Ella pulls the power switch). And at the end, Monkey Shines soars into that rarefied sci-fi air where melodrama meets metaphor. Romero, best known for Night of the Living Dead 20 years ago, has grown up here, grown past Hitchcock homages to fix on the war of mind and body that everyone ceaselessly wages. While he's at it, he has made the smartest dark fantasy since David Cronenberg...
...rare Nomura man who has a good career and a good family life. Now I have time for my family." To many current employees, however, working conditions seem to be getting less harsh. Says a veteran salesman: "We're gradually becoming an ordinary company, moving from the dark ages to the medieval period...
There is also a true relic of the age of pulp: Dashiell Hammett's Woman in the Dark (Knopf; 96 pages; $15.95), overpriced and oversold as a "novel," but compelling on its terms as a sketchbook romance between two losers who share a fierce sense of their own integrity. Other notable reprints include Michael Gilbert's Young Petrella (Harper & Row; 222 pages; $15.95), a collection of magazine stories from the 1950s and '60s that display his trademark Scotland Yard detective with a deadpan precision of mood worthy of Simenon, and A Double Life (Little, Brown; 246 pages; $17.95), short gothic...
Like myths of Eden, the stories of Huck and Tom endure in the American imagination. But they have a dark side too. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck's journey in the Delectable Land is also a drama of alcoholism, child abuse, young runaways, social breakdown, violence, hypocrisy, racism and a child's struggle to understand right and wrong in a society that has lost its bearings. Huckleberry Finn is still the best book about American childhood, as contemporary as a milk carton bearing the photograph of a missing child...