Word: darker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is the territory he calls art brut-"raw art." Its landscape includes the gay scribblings of children, the darker grotesqueries of madmen's art and the limitless repertory of graffiti and folk images-naive, threatening, bizarre or just plain corny-that lies between...
Still, as demonstrated by Visconti's previous excursions through the darker realms of the German soul (The Damned, Death in Venice), decay in some form or other is the only thing that really interests him. It is thus natural for him to see Ludwig's molars as the mirror of his soul, while ignoring the fact that quite another side of the royal character was expressed in such glorious excesses as the romantic Schloss Neuschwanstein, the rococo Linderhof, and the unfinished imitation of Versailles, Schloss Herrenchiemsee. Ludwig's edifice complex may nearly have bankrupted his kingdom...
...assessing the effects of the twelve-year war almost exclusively in terms of its reverberations through American society. We are informed that the prisoners of war will return to a society torn by conflict and cynical about its future. We are told that the conflict has illuminated the darker side of America. We are warned above all that violence breeds hate and more violence in a never-ending cycle that can only serve to undermine progress and idealism...
Brando's characterization, then, while it is a superbly professional performance, is also something of a self-portrait. The correspondences between the role and the life are not always precise; in the case of Paul's kinky sexual predilections and darker rages, the viewer can only speculate whether such correspondences exist at all. But, although the facts may vary, the tone and attitude often ring true. "Forty years of Brando's life experiences went into the film," says his friend Christian Marquand, the French actor. "It is Brando talking about himself, being himself. His relations with...
...etiquette doesn't require you to talk with the person you will next to not as much as plane etiquette does: For one thing they're darker and it you're embarassed by silence you can go to sleep or pretend to. This is how Mrs. Miller (next to me) and I treat each other lot most of the ride I figures there's no need to talk, and I don't feel like talking In My mind. I've planned this bus ride to be six hours of suspended animation. I will roll in a dark bus along...