Word: darknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except for the fact that Dave ends up killing his father--who deserves it--there is nothing extraordinary about the plot; it's just like countless fairy tales. At times it even seems trite. Dave, the handsome gypsy, takes up with Susan, a rich blonde American girl. Dave, the dark and mysterious gypsy, dreams of California. And, typically, neither the romance nor the emigration can ever come to pass. Although Groffo's hired killers botch their job, they manage to gash Dave's face. Susan is too horrified to help and not gypsy enough to understand. Dave turns to Sharon...
...worlds - exterior and interior - compressed into a single overlapping image. Nothing is gratuitous, nothing fudged. The sharp pencil line - Blake's "hard and wirey line of rectitude" - engraves the surface with a kind of moral certainty. A work like June 4-52 (tableform), with the vestige of a dark, undulating horizon line assimilated into the play of the still life, is in its way a glimpse of paradise, a state where the conflicts of na ture and culture are resolved in har mony. The ambition to achieve such harmony has all but vanished from painting today. In Ben Nicholson...
Last April, Congress took a flying leap in the dark. Responding to pressure from politically powerful oldsters, it raised the mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70, although so little study had been done that estimates of the economic and social consequences were only horseback guesses. The move alarmed businessmen, who feared that retaining aging workers would clog the channels of promotion and reduce the hiring of young people, especially women and blacks. But when the law finally went into effect on New Year's Day, the worries had substantially diminished. Many employers now think the law will have...
...well." At first the Enterprise will be fighting what looks like a cloud of electrically charged whipped cream, but the monster is hiding its true nature. "It is the same as any mystery story," Director Robert Wise told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth. "Something's out there in the dark prowling around. You can't see it, but you keep getting horrible reports...
...dark, drunkenly seeking his matchbox, cries: "Mary is pregnant again, and again the world is not ready...