Word: darkness
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Both the beginning and ending poems of Vita Nova are themselves titled "Vita Nova," bookending a sequence of 32 inter-locking poems. It is a deeply reinforced whole--one of the last poems likens grief to the dark wood of a lute, referencing and earlier poem, "Lute Song," in which Gluck discusses the construction of the "overwhelmingly beautiful" out of "terror or pain." All of the poems address the problem of a new life, and the more obscure ones benefit from their embedment in the Vita Nova sequence...
...movie that comes closest to resembling the new movie Jawbreaker is the classically dark Heathers. In Heathers, Winona Ryder falls away from the popular crowd and under the spell of a deranged Christian Slater. Three of the most popular people in their class are murdered while the two are together, a fact that horrifies under who only wanted revenge on her ex-friends, not--gasp!--their deaths...
...butits frankness, blunt honesty and morbid subjectmatter render it a movie for those with strongstomachs and an even darker sense of humor. Itsone triumph is its success in pinpointing the oneuniversal truth of high school. Forget Satan andall of his minions; the embodiment of pure evil inhigh school wears dark lipstick and miniskirts...
...Kaos' efficient arrangement and economy of illumination, the Lehman gallery itself becomes a built space worthy of investigation. Both Sugimoto's and Couturier's works lie outside the main room, luring viewers inward, where the largest photographs--some nearly six feet tall--line the dark gray walls of the smallish room. Lighting is wisely kept at a minimum. In theory, this would allow the photographs themselves to suffuse the room with patches of brightness. While a ghostly luminescence does seem to be emitted by some of the prints, supplemental track lighting glances off the glass of the smaller works, casting...
Last Saturday night, having been misdirected by several liquor store clerks and having run through a labyrinth of dark streets, I arrived out of breath of at the Boston Conservatory of Music for a concert I was determined not to miss. Jumping up the steps, I asked a guard behind the desk the way to the Concert Room and squirmed in just in time. The grandly named Concert Room is tiny, wood paneled and elegant, divided almost in half by a low stage. Some 40 people had squashed themselves into about 60 square feet, backed against the walls or seated...