Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parcels to him unopened, finding ways to get her into the White House past hostile presidential aides and even coming to the White House on weekends just to escort Lewinsky to the President. Currie had her suspicions, at the very least, but tried hard to stay in the dark. Lewinsky once told her that if no one saw Monica and Clinton together, then nothing had happened. "Don't want to hear it," Currie replied, according to Lewinsky. "Don't say any more. I don't want to hear any more...
...family (whom he mentioned for the first time at the prayer breakfast) and to the American people. Before this is over he'll be apologizing to our pets. But to anyone familiar with the boom-and-bust cycles of the Clinton psyche--and by now who isn't?--his dark morning of the soul was also important because so often in the past he has come to a moment like that one before setting back out to fight...
...release of The Complete Hank Williams CD set, Mercury Records amassed a collection of folk art depicting the guitarist-singer. The exhibition includes such pieces as Lonesome Hank, above, painted on a rusty lawn chair, and Setting the Woods on Fire, below, both by Bob Gray; and Dark Hank, middle, by Todd Greene. And move over, Elvis--while on display in New York City, more than half the available pieces were sold. Including the lawn chair...
...Maine. And just as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland had a scandalous predilection for photographing half-clad little girls, these seemingly solid citizens--and as many as 200 other men (and a few women) who belonged to Wonderland--shared an unspeakable secret: the codes to a dark channel in cyberspace. After a raid coordinated with 13 other countries last week, law-enforcement officials charged that Wonderland and its Wondernet operated the largest, most sophisticated ring of child pornographers yet found. "This is a dangerous, dangerous crowd," says Glenn Nick of the U.S. Customs CyberSmuggling Center in Sterling...
Poor Ayckbourn. The British playwright has turned out a string of increasingly dark, provocative comedies. Yet the few U.S. productions of his work tend to reinforce his outdated reputation as the British Neil Simon. Yes, Communicating Doors, now on display in a sprightly off-Broadway staging, is a relatively playful piece. A hooker (Mary-Louise Parker) gets called in to service an old geezer, who promptly confesses that he had his first two wives killed. She flees into a closet, doors spin, and we are transported to the same room 20 years earlier--then 20 years before that. The time...