Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accept the financial burden of maintaining Buddhism by themselves. The 100 families in the tiny hamlet of Damrak Ampil, 12½ miles west of Phnom-Penh, recently contributed enough money to cast a new bronze Buddha and begin restoring their roofless temple. "Lord Buddha sustained us during our darkest hours," explains Village Committeeman Chea Non. "Our village is poor, but our faith is strong...
...lost. De Marneffe's triumph, though, comes later, when she plays the 14-year-old nymphet Ilse. Here she is as enormously seductive as only a pubescent art-groupie in the Village can be that enrapturing combination of loose-knit young limbs and eyes that reach down into your darkest urges. With a look and a walk she evokes the thematic center of Wedekind's play: the awesome power of dawning libido. And Courtney Vance is universally excellent in all four of his roles, but particularly in the end, as the Man in a Mask, the Great Father...
...most sedentary of men. He is, in fact, one of the most peripatetic. By bus, boat, train and car, he has thoroughly explored the U.S., Mexico, Ireland and Europe. By means of his imagination, he has penetrated the farthest reaches of the solar system and the deepest, darkest abysses of the human mind. "I've gone a long way," says Bradbury. "I've come even farther...
Football players don't quickly forget plays like that. Winning is one thing; running up the score against a battered, injury-ridden opponent is another. This year's Harvard team--which includes many veterans of that darkest day of 1979--doesn't like to talk about that game very much to outsiders, but they remember. Yes, they remember...
...present, body and blood, in the bread and wine of the Eucharist: the living symbol of God among men. For Bausch's troubled priest, it becomes a metaphor for the world beyond the sanctuary, where the Real Presence must be sought among the lowliest of people and the darkest of hearts...