Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BUSH has said all along that this campaign is about values, and he is right. But the values he has stood for represent the dark side of this country...
...dark star of the book is Keith Ham, a former doctoral student of religious history at Columbia University, known as Kirtanananda. He established New Vrindaban, whose temple dome and walls were sheathed in gold leaf. From there he controlled the lives of his 300 subjects, stripping them of personal assets and arranging their marriages...
...death and a century after his birth. As a young playwright, O'Neill inherited a theater tradition that was principally a frame for gaslighted frivolities. By the time he got through with it, the U.S. stage had become electric, and had learned to accommodate native-grown murder, madness, alcoholism, dark sexuality and the howling tensions of family life. Opening the curtain on such subjects might not have seemed the surest path to public success, yet O'Neill was one of the most admired and honored writers of his time. Four of his plays won Pulitzer Prizes...
Bush campaign manager Lee Atwater bragged that he would turn Willie Horton, a Black convicted murderer who raped a woman during a furlough from a Massachusetts prison, into "a household name." Horton's dark, sinister face now appears in pro-Bush leaflets and television advertisements in an effort to stir up the ugliest and basest fear of whites--a Black man raping a white woman...
...BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan (Random House; $24.95). In a riveting portrait, John Paul Vann, a top U.S. adviser in Viet Nam, emerges as a man who embodied the contradictions of his ill-fated mission: a courageous do-gooder with a dark streak of amorality...