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...through the underbrush and starts doing card tricks, he creates a mild sense of foreboding. Magician Ricky Jay is a deft dealer, but his sleight of hand tips the hand of Director James Lapine. This will be an evening of chipper invention, but one that will skirt the deeper, darker depths of this forest, where magic turns to mystery and the tumbling appearance of the fairy kingdom's wayward spirits becomes a metaphor for the wayward heart's enigmatic leapings...
...destiny of Thomas Hardy, a quiet little man whose principal excitement consisted of a bicycle ride followed by afternoon tea, to remind his fellow Victorians of an England darker and madder than anything in literature since Lear roamed the heath. The novelist made contemporary by film (Tess) and television (The Mayor of Casterbridge) was born in 1840 in a remote Dorset village. There, farmers, shepherds and artisans lived in a kind of Elizabethan time warp. But something dour and reductive in this son of a stone mason drove him back beyond morris dances to a pagan Britain haunted by ancient...
...both waged and endured, got to look like the human condition, The merely private or tribal venture (stealing herds, fetching Helen from Troy) burgeoned into dense public spectacles, whole civilizations on the march The issues came to be territory or wealth or power or security or sometimes some thing darker and more confused: vast error (World War I), vast ego and evil (World...
Earlier readers had a deeper problem with Emerson. His voice seemed too rarefied, ethereal to the point of disconnection with reality - and in any case demonstrably incomplete. He seemed almost bizarrely and willfully ignorant about the darker side of things. Henry James put his finger on it with an exquisite condescension: a "ripe unconsciousness of evil ... is one of the most beautiful signs by which we know him." The Candide of Concord...
...aftermath as the climax of Sunset Strip. In the days after Pryor was found in shock a few blocks from his Northridge, Calif., home, his attorney declared that he had accidentally ignited a glass of rum with a butane lighter. Few believed it. Stories from the rumor mill are darker and more credible for a man who had made habitual use of cocaine part of his onstage act. They said that Pryor had been "freebasing"-mixing coke with ether to produce a more concentrated substance, a high with a mule kick-when the ether exploded...