Word: darkness
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...serves as a reminder of how stock investors and economists can be blinded by a drop of water in what is otherwise obviously a desert. There is no circumstance under which a downgrade of GE's debt is good news. It just seems that way when the world is dark...
...After all, Harvard had a Cinderella season and looked like a dark horse candidate for the ECAC title...
...FROM PAGE TO SCREENAs the quality of comic books has improved, there has been a proliferation of film adaptations, the most recent of which is “Watchmen.” Many of these films have been box office hits, with movies such as “The Dark Knight” grossing over $1 billion worldwide. But such movies have also received widespread critical acclaim. The late Heath Ledger, for example, won Best Supporting Actor at the 2009 Academy Awards for his portrayal of the comic book villain “The Joker...
...dying.”Because it displays the universal and not always rosy interests of the characters, regardless of age and life experience, “The History Boys” is not always a comfortable viewing experience. “All the characters in the play have a dark side to them that, when it comes out, is a little jarring,” says Sean Delal, a junior at Emerson who plays the cynical new teacher Irwin.Walker offers a similarly dark interpretation of the play’s meaning. “The major themes of the play...
...From its dark opening scene, Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen” establishes a complex blend of murder mystery, social commentary, and unrepentant action flick. This mood is immediately set as brawny Edward Blake (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) fails to fight off an unidentified attacker in his home. Viewers—assuming they have not read the graphic novel—can only speculate as to the assassin’s identity, but Blake knows, telling his killer that their world is a joke before he is hurled out a high-rise window.Creating this world has required...