Word: darkeness
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...Thankfully, Take That didn't take to the stage to try to justify their best live act win. The artists who did were many things - thrilling, confusing, off-key - but never boring. With help from Klaxons (whose wardrobe could only be described as futuristic Navajo) Rihanna performed a dark, brooding emo-dance version of her hit Umbrella. On the opposite end of the pop spectrum, Kylie's rendition of her latest single Wow was all bright and shiny, totally making up for the unfortunate Joan Rivers-esque hairstyle and a dress so slinky the only dancing she could manage...
...with the warmer color photos of Obama had the effect of increasing the very divide your article addressed. Obama was shown smiling, cuddling with his wife and playing with a soccer ball, while Clinton was shown doing a phone interview, studying papers before a rally and standing in the dark before giving a speech. Photographs can be as biased as language. A little more evenhandedness would have been preferable. Marcia Hayden-Horan, Syracuse, New York...
...warmer color photos of Obama had the effect of increasing the very divide your article addressed. Obama was shown smiling, cuddling with his wife and playing with a soccer ball, while Clinton was shown doing a phone interview, studying papers in preparation for a rally and standing in the dark before giving a speech. Photographs can be just as biased as language. A little more evenhandedness would have been preferable...
...Athletic Department’s callous, secretive nature was first revealed to me during the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) debacle in the fall of 2006. Not only did the Athletic Department leave the majority of the student body in the dark, but it even failed to address the concerns of its own athletes. Weeks after the closing of the MAC had been widely publicized, varsity athletes who use the MAC facilities for their practices and games still found themselves left out of the loop...
Rapid urbanization, the growing intellectual and economic independence of women and the dislocations of World War I had all helped loosen traditional morals. As Americans read Sigmund Freud's dark warning about the effects of suppressed desire, writes Historian Geoffrey Perrett, "sexual freedom appeared to be scientific, more or less." By 1926 F. Scott Fitzgerald testily complained that "the universal preoccupation with sex had become a nuisance...