Word: darkness
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...Speaking of, even if it didn't share a title word, Sunshine Cleaning would likely be compared to Little Miss Sunshine, which came from the same production company. There's the dark humor, the pathos, the suicide theme, the misfit child everyone adores and last but not least, Alan Arkin, who plays Rose and Norah's father Joe. Take away Little Miss's grandpa's deep interest in pornography, and they are essentially the same characters. Arkin's needling charms are intact, but it's a poor casting choice. When you hear him giving the same self-esteem speech...
...prejudice against the Rohingya is as casual as it is cruel. When international indignation over the junta's treatment of the Muslim minority erupted earlier this year, Burma's consul general to Hong Kong issued a letter saying that the Rohingya could not possibly be Burmese since they were "dark brown" and "ugly as ogres...
...Groups like the ACLU have sued law enforcement agencies in the past aimed at exposing domestic spying, but individuals whose privacy has been violated have little recourse - "suing is a shot in the dark," Simonson says, given current state and federal laws. "There aren't any legal remedies and we are trying to create one," Simonson says, acknowledging that it may take more than one legislative session to pass the bill in New Mexico...
...first movement. Some of the running notes in the woodwinds were swallowed in the playful dialogue of the virtuosic movement. But Levine successfully led the orchestra in a crowd-pleasing, toe-tapping performance of the symphony’s last movement.In a dramatic shift from triumphant fanfare to dark lyricism, the BSO began Mozart’s famous Symphony No. 40 in G minor. With a sense of mournful yearning, the strings stressed the beginnings of the motific two-note slurs in the opening melody. The first movement tended to drag, but Levine was able to maintain the lyrical drama...
...Despite the terrorists' intentions, it's unlikely that Saturday night's murders will derail the peace process. The communal will to avoid a return to the dark days of the Troubles is simply too strong. Yet, until Saturday night, there had been no major terrorist incident to try the collective will of Northern Ireland's most recent power-sharing executive. With the contentious issue of security at the top of the political agenda once again, the cracks in Northern Ireland's fractious devolved government may widen even further...