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...entrance of the morning sun into the room is as quet as painless death. She kneels. Each morning upon rising she kneels where she can see the cross above her small bed, and the thin stream of sunlight through the ugly torn shade. These morning prayers are different from her prayers before retiring, the light is different. At night pale neon flickers into the room and illuminates the Ghost...
...LIFE had their offices on the sixth floor. I peered in through a grille and saw huge portraits of Lenin, Marx and Mao. The heavy bronze gates in the doorway of the building looked just the same. Even the faded gold mosaic of the lobby was just a shade grimier. Peering into the vestibule, I could see the rheumatic old elevators, still alive but having more difficulty than ever getting upstairs...
...three-hour tour of Kampala by bus and on foot, I saw not a single white face on the street, and only one Asian. Uganda's white population today is only a shade over 3,000, down more than half from that of last August. There are fewer than 1,000 Asians left, mostly skilled specialists who were exempted from the expulsion decree...
...leading. Critics jump at the chance to be witty, and this is a chance to glibly toss off an entire album and entertain your readers at the same time. Trouble is, Traffic's newest, Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory isn't. Uninspired, that is. It's just a shade better than Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, and, while it's not real innovative, compared to, say, Mr. Fantasy in 1967-68, it certainly cements Steve Winwood's reconstruction of the form fusion that made Traffic's first a quantum jump away from the Spencer Davis Group...
Bertolucci turns an equally sensitive eye to shade and tone. Stucco covered by luxuriant ivy, the red tile roofs of the village when the sun is high, are played off against a haunting night-time blue in which lamps stand out in the windows, or, in one stunning scene, a fire leaps up and down, leaving a lingering after-image on film pushed close to the limits of its sensitivity...