Word: darkeness
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...always say I lost the Beastie Boys. But I don't know, what did I lose? I didn't lose s---, y'know. I broke my foot because I got up at six o'clock in the morning, first time I ever broke anything, and it was dark and I didn't know where I was. I was looking for the [yoga] mat and I just fell down the steps and broke my foot. And that's okay though because I learned to practice [yoga] six weeks with a broken foot...
...night before. Gabriel obeys, traveling to Russia and taxiing over to her apartment only to find his mother dead on the floor. All similarities to Dan Brown, thankfully, stop there. Instead of the murder mystery suggested by the novel’s first few chapters, Docx gives us a dark, intriguing, thoughtful study of the ripples that emanate from Maria Glover’s death, which—to put all thoughts of a thriller to rest—is caused by a stroke. Her death and life launch Docx’s intense portrait of his characters...
...without a certain human sympathy for them. Their unseen higher-ups wanted intelligence (particularly about Saddam?s whereabouts) and did nothing to discourage any behavior that would degrade and terrify their prisoners into supplying that information. That most of them had no connection with Iraq?s dark side was either not clear or of no consequence to the upper ranks; they were simply in a bureaucratic frenzy to supply their political masters something that could be made to look like plausible intel. An interrogator insists that nothing useful could be obtained by the often sexually charged ?techniques? employed...
...what explains the furor? The ferocity with which the protesters turn on anybody who disagrees with them reminds some older Chinese of the dark days of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, which convulsed China from 1966 to '76. Today's protesters have one thing in common with Mao's revolutionaries: years of indoctrination in a highly nationalistic--some would say xenophobic--credo that imagines a hostile and perfidious world determined to undermine China. "Maybe kids today know more about computers, about the Internet," says Dai Qing, an environmental activist who was imprisoned after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, "but when...
Around me it was dark like in a closed cabin. From time to time flashes of lightning lightened the sky ... and it thundered. The journey that normally takes me half an hour I did in 10 minutes. Everybody was at home except Grandma, whom Dad released and brought home the next...