Word: darkeness
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...this the truth? There are dark murmurings from scientists and doctors asking, Was her son ever really autistic? Evan's symptoms - heavy seizures, followed by marked improvement once the seizures were brought under control - are similar to those of Landau-Kleffner syndrome, a rare childhood neurological disorder that can also result in speech impairment and possible long-term neurological damage. Or, as other pediatricians have suggested, perhaps the miracle I have beheld is the quotidian miracle of childhood development: a delayed 2-year-old catching up by the time he is 7, a commonplace, routine occurrence, nothing more surprising than...
...September 3, a man visits a small dark room in New York’s Museum of Modern Art to witness “24 Hour Psycho”—a video installation by Douglas Gordan exhibited during the summer of 2006—as he has supposedly done every day. As Gordan’s title implies, Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal film has been slowed, and the man relishes the new perspective, the ability to circle the projection screen, scrutinizing and observing in a typically unattainable way. Two men—one old, one young?...
...isn’t enough. As a pure-and-simple psychological thriller, “Shutter Island” should be lauded. It has all the necessary ingredients: a consistently dark tone, emotionally powerful reveals, and mind-bending twists aplenty. And from any other director, that might be enough to satisfy. But from Martin Scorsese, we have come to expect something more. We expect a coherent and thought-provoking message. We expect great ideas, new innovations, broken boundaries. We expect, in short, a film that is different, one that will stay with us well past the final fade-to-black...
...gold medal - "I blew the whole race on one turn," he said afterward - but his technical ability on a nasty, icy course earned him the bronze. None of the fancied racers from Austria or Switzerland came close, and the winner, the Swiss skier Didier Defago, was another dark horse...
Extremely disappointed at their tournament’s abrupt end, the teams soon realized what thousands of tourists, misfit best friends, and Katy Perry have realized before them: when there’s time to kill and nothing of interest for thousands of miles, the bright lights and dark clubs of The Strip beckon...