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...representing powers and principalities with no interest in solving the crimes; and, it becomes horribly clear, by the same night stalker they themselves are trying to capture. And at about this time, Moore begins to have doubts: Are Kreizler's own exceedingly peculiar actions explainable by any but the darkest motives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A Case for Sherlock Freud | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

While myths associated with Widener, Memorial Hall and the Union run rampant, very few of us are aware that the deepest darkest, most fearsome secrets here at Harvard lurk in--The Quad. In order to penetrate the compendium of riddles, the pandora's box of mystery, the den of debauchery we know and love to be the Quad, I decide to investigate one of the truly remarkable institutions here at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Q-riosities | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...indeed, that when Rick Ames purchased a $540,000 suburban home--with cash--on a $70,000 a year salary, no heads turned in Langley, Virginia. If it is true that the CIA operates satellites which are able to read a license plate number from deepest darkest space it would seem they could do a better job in keeping an eye on their own personnel...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: Rise of the Bourgeois Spy | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...respond well to re-working: "Watercolor is like a typewriter; acrylic is like a word-processor." He starts each piece with a gray underpainting on which he builds layers of brighter color--he doesn't use any pigments straight from the tube, preferring instead to mix subtle tones. His darkest shades are made up of reds, blues, and greens; he never uses black in a painting. Howe's brush strokes are, for the most part, controlled, although in some of his earlier pieces like "Adele's Tea House I," the actual process remains visible: "the painting is still here...

Author: By Tara B. Reddy, | Title: Looking at Leverett: How Howe Sees His Surroundings | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

...trouble, if it is a trouble, is simply that of any fourth installment. The first wild surge of narrative invention has steadied to a reliable chug. The author's moves are clever and effective, but they are known. Her characters have told the darkest of their secrets. Erdrich's instinct, as the momentum of an anecdote is about to tail off, is to save matters with literary magic. This works, often brilliantly, but it works again and again, which may be a few astonishments too many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Old Bear, Laughing | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

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