Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle, they have a last meeting in a small cafe, and sing their song, "Red and Black." The thoughts behind these words, sung by the leader Enjolras (John Herrera), who has one of the best singing voices in the show, are strong: "Red--the blood of angry men!/Black--the dark of ages past!/Red--a world about to dawn!/Black--the night that ends at last...
...most obvious danger in the media's use of polls lies in the tendency to classify candidates into two tiers: the front-runners and the dark horses. Early in a campaign, the media categorizes certain candidates as electable because they are well-known or receive favorable ratings from early polling data. The remaining candidates are categorized as unelectable also-rans...
...action stories and away from money, its founding muse. Tom Wolfe, who has forged a career out of the superficialities of the times, now produces a novel about vanity, sensing that people may be ready to condemn the vacant, self-celebrating life. The plague of AIDS, in its own dark way, has contributed to a national maturing by forcing prospective lovers to confront one another as realities and not as players in a game...
...groups went their own separate ways; some, like the Panthers and the Weathermen, down a dark road of alienation, hermetic ideology and increasing violence that frequently ended in death or prison for their followers. Others, like the women's movement, were able to sustain their political vitality into the Seventies and beyond...
...stirring, all right, not only in the Batcave but also on the fringes of cultural experimentation. There another writer-artist, Art Spiegelman, brought forth Maus, a black-and-white line-drawn memoir of Hitler's Germany, where the Nazis are cats and the Jews are mice. Like The Dark Knight Returns, Maus (Pantheon; 159 pages; $8.95) came out in 1986. Warner has 80,000 copies of Knight in print. Pantheon reports that Maus, after eight printings totaling more than 100,000 copies, still sells an average of 1,000 a week. Spiegelman's tale is a hellish metaphor for history...