Word: darkest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ANYTHING and everything you do-in the darkest of dorm rooms, in the drunkest of moments, in the most clueless of exam sessions--is on the record. That's what the coverage seemed to suggest...
...invented it, at least in this fulsome form. Betrayed is the story of Cathy Weaver (Winger), an FBI agent sent into the farm belt to investigate an armed conspiracy of the crackpot right. She falls in with, and then in love with, Gary (Tom Berenger), the man of her darkest dreams. For such a paranoid gent, he is pretty quick to accept Cathy. Before you can say "George Lincoln Rockwell," he has invited her to a "coon hunt" -- ten white men having fatal sport with one innocent black. Before you can mutter "Zionist Occupation Government," he has taken...
...leading entries come from two old hands at humor, one regaining his form after several lean years, the other moving on to complex sociological terrain. Also affording special pleasure are a Sherlockian pastiche from an elder statesman, the eagerly awaited return of two detectives whose creator prefers plumbing the darkest of psyches, a couple of hard-boiled escapades centered on the trade in illegal immigrants, and two nightmare imaginings that unfold underground...
Some bigwig at Warner Bros. must have been traumatized by a move to the 'burbs; Funny Farm is Warner's third comedy in a year to deal with New Yorkers who find angst in New England. (Another film, Moving, exiled Richard Pryor from New Jersey to darkest Idaho.) But The Witches of Eastwick and Beetlejuice had infernal satire in mind and an intelligent eye for the grotesque. Funny Farm is mostly just a country store stocked with stale notions and antique gags: Mr. Bland Builds His Dream House...
...there was widespread shock last week when it was alleged that Nachmann had embezzled millions of dollars from interest earned by reparations funds provided by the West German government for victims of Nazi persecution. Said Heinz Galinski, 75, Nachmann's successor as council chairman: "This is one of the darkest hours for the Jewish community since...