Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apartment fits Americans' conception of a Soviet dwelling, with bare walls, simple furnishings, a dark, out-of-the-way location--and of course a reknowned spokesmen for Soviet Jewry...
...Democratic candidate for President during the dark days of 1932 had few firm economic ideas. Buffeted by conflicting advice, he lamely tried to split the difference. His speeches were a study in contradiction, combining hints of bold spending programs with cries for a balanced budget. If Franklin Roosevelt's approach was inconsistent, even intellectually dishonest, it helped produce a landslide victory over Herbert Hoover and ultimately the New Deal...
...looked to the White House for . . . what? At the least, for an acknowledgment of the reality and the fear. Suddenly a door to the future had been blown open, and what the world saw (or was it mere hallucination?) seemed frightening. A glimpse of monsters out there in the dark. People looked for a stirring of presidential energy, for both substance and symbol to announce that the most powerful office in the world was alive to the danger. What the world needed was focus, intelligence, communication. It needed to hear the voice of an adult. Editorial writers, columnists, businessmen...
...generally portrayed as Saviors. Johnson and Nixon were cartooned as Satans, and Ford and Carter as Samsons -- weak Presidents shorn of their strength. Reagan seems to invite the thought that he has found a new model, the Salesman, in the last act, standing on a stage about to go dark...
...dissolve them as emblems of personality. The surfaces look as if they came via Philip Guston from Monet, picking up some of Giacomo Balla's futurist dissections of light particles along the way -- a sober flicker in which images flash and are gone like the sides of fish in dark, weedy water...