Word: darkness
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...those who lived through the dark days of Northern Ireland's past, the rationale behind the latest disturbances is irrelevant. They just want the violence - and the implied promise of more - to stop. "These past few days there's been a funny atmosphere in the air as if something was going to happen," says Arlene, 62, who lives in a republican neighborhood, as she takes a cigarette break outside a city center bingo hall. "In our day, we had to look over our shoulder 24/7. Nobody wants to go back to that...
...product. Money was no object. By night they stayed in a beautiful hotel near the Louvre. When they had all their supplies, the artist and the scientist hand-ground chocolate in preparation for their invention’s big reveal. The day finally came. In the corner of the dark, smoky gallery, the artist and the scientist unleashed “Le Whif” onto the world. “Orange or Gingerbread?” they asked. Which is more fantastical: the existence of inhalable chocolate or the implausible story behind it?It all started in the fall...
...question of whether In Treatment could start again from scratch. That doesn't seem to be a problem. It's like a police procedural of the mind; if there are a million ways for CSI to solve murders, surely there are dozens of ways for Paul to follow dark tunnels in search of life's imponderables. It's a crazy world out there. It could keep Paul Weston busy for a long, long time...
Intelligence sources concede they are in the dark about any relationship between Kim Jong Un and Chang. If Kim died suddenly, analysts think, Chang would become the de facto leader even if one of the sons was put forward as a front man to maintain the dynasty. That implies that in all likelihood, the post-Kim Jong Il era will look a lot like the present. The country's unifying ideology, called juche, is usually translated as "self-reliance." But as a Western diplomat in Seoul says, "it's more like 'up yours.' " No sign of that changing...
...most innocuous title in the history of theatre, Harold Pinter’s “The Birthday Party” is certainly not an average five-year-old’s affair. Devoid of any balloons, streamers, or happy children, Pinter’s play is a dark, existentialist work exploring the madness of human nature lurking just below a superficially harmless exterior. “The Birthday Party” will be on show in the Loeb Expository Theatre from April 3-11. “The Birthday Party” premiered in 1958 and is Pinter?...