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...sunburst cheer about the nation, however, Reagan's campaign brought up some darker American forces. He had met with right-wing Fundamentalists like the Rev. Jerry Falwell and the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, and the glow of presidential approval reflected off them to the religious fringe, on what might be called the Christian certitudinarians, the ones with a hard light of fanaticism in their eyes. These are the people who know they are right. One always wishes to press a copy of the Sermon on the Mount into the hands of a militant Reaganite Christian. Reagan also identified himself with...
...story she has exhaustively researched, and documented. The Weaker Vessel is a welcome addition to the slowly growing field of women's studies. It is also a warning that, as in the England of Elizabeth I, "it is easy to suppose in a time of freedom that the darker days of repression can never come again." This statement is made parenthetically, but it stands as the central motif of the book. As in 17th-century England, there are more women than men among the poor in America today. Women may have come a long way, but the legacy...
...first time Domingo has tried Wagner. In 1968 he sang Lohengrin in Hamburg, and in 1976 he recorded Walther von Stolzing in Die Meistersinger. Despite the beauty of the singing, his voice was too light then to be fully convincing. Today, at 43, his tenor is darker and more baritonal, and he thus is open to experimentation with new roles and even with new careers. Later this month, for example, Domingo makes his Met debut as a conductor, leading Puccini's La Bohème, and he is currently appearing as Don José in Francesco Rosi...
...Athens. Ga., comes on like a decadent kiddies album, blending childlike innocence with childish perversity to set a tone that is, simultaneously harming and unsettling. The nursery-rhyme lyrics and the bright melodies on this six-song EP barely mask the obsessive, morbidity lurking beneath. In fact, the darker meanings are so tightly woven into the airy structure of the music that it becomes impossible to separate the perversity from the innocence...
Besides refusing to baby PS. Vanessa goes quite a bit further at times. The first time be glimpses her, she is framed in white light, tall and glamorous, and his eyes widen in wonder. But if she appears angelic, she also has a much darker side. Terrified of Australia's frequent thunderstorms, she rushes to his room and holds him quivering and whispering Logan's name. The scenes though not explicit carry some heavy Freudian overtones...