Word: darkly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solve his problem is novel. He persuades Linderman (Adam Baldwin), the biggest lad in his class, and one wrapped in a menacing silence, to act as his bodyguard. In the course of their nicely developed relationship, Clifford discovers that his new friend's silence is motivated by a dark but not dingy secret, which understanding can cure. By the time the two have disposed of their tormentors, in a well-staged final confrontation, they have done a lot of growing...
...mirthright. In a career that spanned four decades, Sellers played a German scientist, an R.A.F. officer and the President of the U.S. in Dr. Strangelove; a Cockney Marxist in I'm All Right, Jack; an Indian doctor in The Millionairess; a French detective in A Shot in the Dark; a dowager and her friends in The Mouse That Roared. He impersonated celebrities as varied as James Bond and Queen Victoria, and when literary conceits seemed impossible to translate to film, Sellers easily became Quilty, the littérateur of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and the simple-minded Chance...
...immense energy of the time left many introspective. The virtues of the time were conformity, domesticity, respectability, security, attention to religion. Norman Mailer hated the whole business enough to call the '50s "one of the worst decades in the history of man." And the dark side was dark enough. A thin film of nuclear terror coated the psyche...
...film genres, the thriller is the most dependent on directorial technique. Using camera tracks, point-of-view shots and disorienting cuts, the director can reveal or conceal, lead and mislead the viewer into a position as vulnerable as that of a fair-haired virgin in an old dark house. De Palma knows all about this. His camera glides down corridors and through rooms as elegantly as a downhill racer with murder on his mind. His actors of ten move at an otherworldly pace that recalls the stylized slowness of silent movies-especially in a wordless sequence that lasts almost half...
...voyage upriver. The second volume also introduces Cyrano de Bergerac and England's King John, who attempted to steal the throne from his brother Richard in real life and who hijacks Clemens' boat on the Riverworld. But while these two books and the third volume, The Dark Design, drop some clues about the creators of the fantastic planet, none provides the solution to the mystery...