Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must have laughed, because they all glared at me. But later, walking home in the almost dark, with the sweet-sharp smell of burning leaves in the air, I got to thinking what a hard job you've taken on. "My people aren't paradise people," you say. You imagine them arriving in heaven and somebody saying "No, thank you, we can't stay for eternity, we'll just sit and have a few minutes of bliss with you and then we have to get back...
...months young, who tumbled down a well while playing in her aunt's backyard. Trapped underground for 58 desperate hours, the child seemed doomed. Yet a down-but-determined West Texas town rallied round and literally clawed its way to her rescue. The drama offered the ultimate counterpoint: the dark currents of world events shared the screen with the whimpers of a helpless toddler crying out for "Mommy...
...dead man's explosive, disturbing older brother -- a sexually charged clash of classes reminiscent of It Happened One Night or, in its brutality and danger, of the misfit infatuation in Requiem for a Heavyweight. The final scene is a rapprochement so tentative that it is played entirely in the dark: these reluctant lovers are unable even to look at each other...
Down the stairs into the dark, smoky, vaguely Spanish atmosphere of Cafe Pamplona. It is crowded. The small, round tables are filled with eclectic groupings--several European-looking men sit alone, smoking and staring reflectively. Their coffee cups are perched on stacks of papers. I imagine the manuscript of their latest play, or the translation of a Marguerite Duras novel...
...order. I usually get tea--Earl Grey with milk and honey. But tonight demands coffee, strong and dark. With only a little cream. It's psychological, not the caffeine. The cups at Pamplona are heavy, my energy is absorbed in the act of drinking. Our conversation is frantic, fueled by nervous energy and lack of sleep...