Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, we watch Mick Jagger awkwardly attempt to share a mike with the blind musician. He bends over Stevie's piano bench, dodges the waves of his unknowing head, looks exasperated and finally gives up. The one close-up on Stevie himself captures him as he accidentally knocks his dark glasses off and fumbles to slip them back...
...competent president. His Yale degree proves he's no intellectual slouch, she says. And while the politicians have been making deals Washington, Robertson has been running one of the nation's largest cable networks. He is no hatchet man. And mom says he's friendly, with no Dolelike dark side...
Appelfeld's prose has the quality of light sleep, an uneasy alertness in which the past is like a fading dream ("Nothing was left of those dark days except twitches, remnants of nightmares, grimaces, and scraps of words") and the present a sudden, painful awareness: "In the next room Rosa and Bridget were still sleeping. The windows of the apartment were closed, and the heavy throbbing of their sleep could be felt even in the kitchen. Their forgotten existence awoke inside him for a moment and then passed away." Of such mortal moments is the immortal Bartfuss made and remembered...
Employing images reminiscent of Stephen King, Conroy graphically depicts the horror of a tortured family. But his skill at imagery also provides passages of beauty, creating a world that is both light and dark, horrid and fantastical...
...Colleton, South Carolina family. An ill-fitting puzzle of contrasts, the prologue continues with a poignant description of a healthy childhood that Dr. Spock would have praised. "I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders," says...