Word: darkness
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...escape routes and had even helped build the glass-enclosed frame Mona Lisa was displayed in - so on the fateful morning he knew how to get her out of it quickly. Then he spirited her back to his shabby apartment and flung her like Patty Hearst into a dark closet, which is where she remained for more than two years...
...Becoming My Mother (and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way), Reichl examines her mom's old letters and explores her parent's ideas about young women (pretty is more important than smart) as well as her mother's bipolar disorder. Reichl talked to TIME about confessing dark secrets through memoir, why women should work and how the recession is affecting haute cuisine...
...thoroughly disappointing performance under Sung’s baton. In her subscription series debut with the BSO, Sung opened with Jean Sibelius’s “The Bard,” a little-known tone poem from the Finnish composer’s “dark period.” The exploratory rubato and ethereal runs in principal harpist Ann Hobson Pilot’s introductory solo were masterfully evocative of Nordic folklore, but a messy ensemble entrance quickly overran her lyrical interpretation. The minimalist dynamic range and bare orchestration of the piece, which should have constructed...
...problem is there's no hard and fast rule for what counts as negligence. Going hiking in the early evening and then getting lost in the dark without a flashlight is considered distinct from an accident such as slipping and breaking your leg, says Colonel Martin Garabedian, chief of law enforcement for New Hampshire's Fish & Game Department. He estimates that rescues cost anywhere from $120 to more than $50,000. Annually, he oversees about 150 rescue missions, a figure that has remained steady for years. "What has changed is the cost of doing business - training, equipment, paying officers...
...Dark Days/Light Years” is a title that captures the spirit not so much of Super Furry Animals’ new album but rather of their entire career. The Welsh five-piece—whose eclectic oeuvre has been variously described as psychedelia and power pop—have always cast light and darkness about them with equal measure—never more so than on their 2003 magnum opus, “Phantom Power,” where upbeat, frenetic melodies and beats were counterbalanced by wistful lyrics. While its sound is characteristically SFA, “Dark...