Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...males, obsessed with their toys, and American females, driven to homicidal embrace. In Peter Greenaway's Drowning by Numbers, three women murder their husbands and enlist the help of a coroner, who is besotted, then drowned, by all three. Greenaway's pristine mannerism makes a fine beguilement of this dark, wet comedy...
...films that followed Splash -- Bachelor Party, Volunteers, The Money Pit, Nothing in Common and Dragnet -- attracted quite the attention that his first hit had. Big will almost certainly bring the spotlight back, and his next two pictures, Punchline, the story of a stand-up comic, and The 'Burbs, a dark comedy about a suburbanite's fixation on his weird neighbors, may even raise Hanks' asking price, which is now something more than $1 million a picture...
These early scenes have a vigor and pictorial sharpness that mark Boyd's best writing. After reading the description of the Todds' house, the reader feels he could find his way around it in the dark. The chapter on the school is as effective in miniature as any number of public school classics. Todd's closest friend is an acne-ridden chap named Hamish who happens to be a mathematical wizard. Hamish is the goat of some brutish schoolboy pranks, but he is too intoxicated by his own theories to care very much. His presence gives rise to some authorial...
...full of advanced engineering. Like many popular "point- and-click" models, each boasts functions that used to require manual operation but are now automatic: exposure control, focus, flash, loading, winding and film-speed setting. To these have been added some new twists, including infrared beams for focusing in the dark, automatic exposure compensation for subjects that are lit from behind, and a built-in zoom lens for wide-angle and telephoto shots with a flash unit smart enough to narrow or widen its beams accordingly. The zoom lens of the Chinon Genesis is hand operated; in the Yashica Samurai...
...Army counterintelligence unit during World War II, Salinger searched for Nazis in newly liberated towns and wrote stories while huddled in foxholes. In Paris he met Ernest Hemingway, who supposedly made a bad impression by shooting the head off a chicken. A postwar Salinger cut a tall, dark and disconcerting figure in New York. An editor's wife recalls meeting "Jerry" at a party in 1952: "He came over to me and said that we ought to run away together. I said, 'But I'm pregnant.' And he said, 'That doesn't matter. We can still run away...