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...castle into a dungeon, and life into hell. Much later, no longer a princess but still a Little girl at the age of 37, she tried to remember what had happened. She wrote it all down in 35 days as a group of letters. And it was surely the darkest and most poignant princess story ever told. For never before was there a king like evil Joseph Stalin and a princess as sweet and troubled as Svetlana Alliluyeva...
...part of a massive Cabinet and sub-Cabinet reshuffle that included firing five of his older ministers, the Prime Minister appointed himself Britain's economic overlord, much as a desperate Winston Churchill took charge of Britain's defense in the darkest hour of World War II. Even for a man of Wilson's stubborn courage, it was a moment of daring. By personally assuming control of the Department of Economic Affairs, Wilson not only gave himself the toughest job in Britain but gambled his political future on victory where two senior ministers have failed...
...encountered rickets. The darkest-skinned young male hunters were so crippled that they could not keep up; the darkest-skinned females died in childbirth because of pelvic deformities. Those who happened to be lighter skinned, of both sexes, survived...
...thanks to Joseph Stein's knowing dramatization and to a winning performance by Alan Arkin as the fumbling hero. Now Reiner has directed a film version that sticks closely to the words of the play but destroys much of its sly insight into the dawning of awareness in darkest Bronx...
...lust. He imprisons first Lolita, then his deadly rival Quilty. Later he writes his memoirs from prison. For Nabokov, the book's theme is love-and the necessity to liberate love from "its extreme and seemingly mutually exclusive opposite, lechery." Eventually Humbert Humbert is able to face the darkest images of death and debauchery in his past, and learns the definition of love from Lolita's warm and undemanding successor, Rita. (Few readers even remember that Lolita had a successor...