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...dinner party that no one could leave. The guests were prisoners, not of the hosts or even of the house itself, but of each other, trapped by their own free will-victims, finally, of their own fantasies. It was a furious, scalding film, one of Bunuel's darkest and most unsparing...
...consider the physical reality of Nixon's re-election machine: it is lavish with money and frugal with words; it is confident and professional; it is capable of appearing magnanimous, welcoming Democratic defectors. But most of all the Nixon campaign is elusive, as if it were guarding the darkest secrets, which in fact, it probably...
They are beautiful songs with their roots in the darkest and most beautiful parts of Africa. They are songs that race back to a time when there was no white man, no whip, no shotgun. They are songs that depict the misery and joy of the human condition, they sound a note of freedom and life in the face of imprisonment and death...
...Sorrow and the Pity represents the darkest side of human experience. It is not the self-aggrandizing view of the world to which Kissinger's biography of Metternich. The Meaning of History, lays claim. Nor does it depend on arrows sweeping across a map or countries drenched in different intensities of red. It does not depend on Great Men--Metternichs or Kissingers. It is people, collectively and as individual human beings. Their hopes. Their crimes. Their sorrows. The story of this one French town during this one particular nightmare pulses more deeply than the matter-of-fact recollections of pain...
...added, students are not admitted for reasons of diversity alone. "Being from the darkest part of an inner city ghetto will not help you get into Harvard," he said...