Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alone in a dark room with the Queen of Hip-Hop. Back up. Rewind. There was light when you arrived; when you got here it was still before nightfall, and the New Jersey sky was the flat bluish-gray of an old fluorescent light. Riding in your car in the half-light, you came to a comfortable brick house on a comfortable, suburban, Truman Show-ish street; walking up, the door wasn't locked, it wasn't even closed, and it creaked open wider when you knocked. This ain't Compton, this ain't the Queensbridge projects, but this...
...sitting in the dark with the new Queen of Hip-Hop. You're in a windowed alcove just off the living room. Hill doesn't want to turn on the lights; she says she "doesn't want to spoil the mood." You can hear her one-year-old son Zion gurgling and making baby yelps in a nearby room. When you came in, you could see Hill's tummy bulge under her blue overalls--the 23-year-old mom has another baby due in October. Now you can't see anything. You can just hear her voice. Motherhood...
...shower sequence. In the black-and-white version, Hitchcock used chocolate syrup as fake blood; this time around, the porcelain is drenched with gallons of dark-cherry goo. "It was fun but tedious," laughs Heche, who refused a body double. "I mean, three days of going in the shower, drying off, then going back in. It was dry, wet, dry, wet, wet, wet, dry. 'O.K., scream...
Then the White House went dark. There's nothing so rare at the Executive Mansion as a quiet Saturday, when people can relax and Presidents actually get to play. But this was a whole new kind of quiet--hollow and grim. Clinton was looking, simultaneously, at the most dangerous prospect of his public life and the most devastating chapter of his private one. He canceled his plans for the weekend to prepare for his testimony; Hillary went into seclusion. She virtually locked herself in a room upstairs, forswearing visitors and talking to no one other than her mother and other...
...control prosecutor on Monday night, the lay minister who prides himself on his composure was suddenly out of control. Hatch appeared on five networks in an hour, breaking the previous indoor record for Consecutive Appearances in a Single Day, held by William Ginsburg. The screen went dark in the Map Room, and almost immediately there was Hatch on NBC threatening, "I'm just going to blow my stack" if he hears another word against Starr. His stack gone, he moved over to CNN, where he threatened to blow his "cork" if the phrase "$40 million" (as in "$40 million investigation...