Word: darknesse
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Nearly two years after Aquino won her war of good against evil, the forces of darkness are again threatening to overwhelm the Philippines. Aquino's once unassailable hold on popular support is slowly slipping, and the country is on the brink of chaos. Though she has painstakingly restored democracy, she...
The scene: a dark alley not unlike the one that runs alongside the building where this reporter's old friend Buddy Bixford lives. A reporter--this reporter--crouches intrepidly, nakedly, in the darkness. Waiting.
But as a result, Zurbaran is known today by a tiny part of his output, maybe half a dozen "typical" paintings, single images of great power and reductive concentration: a Paschal lamb, the Agnus Dei, lying in darkness mutely trussed for sacrifice; or a row of clay vessels as dense...
Zurbaran's version comes right from the rhetorical heart of the Counter- Reformation. Dark, admonitory and raw, it seems overwhelmingly real in every detail, from the coarse weave of the woolen habit (with a frayed hole at the elbow, emblematic of poverty, brilliantly accentuated with a few impasto flicks of...
The material follows Thriller's golden trail. There is a Billie Jean equivalent (Dirty Diana) about a trashy romance. There are the ballads, deep as wall-to-wall pile, and there is the violent showpiece Smooth Criminal. The title track is Beat It redux, a spectacularly snazzy hang-tough tune...