The bush devil who came to Balamah when I was a boy arrived after dark with an assistant.
(Think of it as your tall, dark, and handsome personal assistant).
The heroine's story also begins with a flashback dream of the Dark Lord and his assistant, Julius, killing her stepmother and destroying her village.
Their respective entourages included bodyguards wearing dark glasses, numerous legal assistants and friends.
There are shroudlike dark paintings of his assistants, of himself in various personas, of his friend the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
"UNICEF has been a friend and partner to Liberia for decades and has seen us through some of our darkest days," said Tolbert Nyenswah, Assistant Minister of Health and Social Welfare and national incidence manager for the Ebola response in Liberia.
He turned and glared at the assistant, a small, dark Tamilian boy.
In the sidecar is his assistant, a short dark man, locally recruited, named Chodrak, or, in Chinese, Kuohui.
"There are a lot of factors that contribute to quote-unquote dark circles," said Dr. Diane Berson, an assistant professor of dermatology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in Manhattan.
By most accounts, during the 8 years they spent together at Paramount, Eisner saw Katzenberg as a gofer--a short, brusque assistant who wore dark suits, white shirts, and large square glasses and did what he was told.
Mr. Molina's imperious, pontifical Rothko strides the stage with dark command, and the painting assistant played by Mr. Redmayne mostly prods him with questions that lead Rothko into high-toned musings and aphorisms on the meaning of art and the benighted world that cannot recognize greatness, let alone strive for it as giants like Rothko strive.
