Omar survived what residents, antigovernment activists and human rights monitors are calling one of the darkest recent episodes in the Syrian war, a massacre in government-held Tartus Province that has inflamed sectarian divisions, revealed new depths of depravity and made the prospect of stitching the country back together appear increasingly difficult.
When the late Kakuei Tanaka the most effective "Shogun in the dark" in recent times began to lose his grip in 1987, the scary Shin Kanemaru assumed the role, anointing his protégé, Mr Takeshita, as prime minister and arranging for him to take over the Tanaka faction.
Indeed, there may still be the odd remote Amazonian tribe still in the dark about recent talent manoeuvres on ITV's breakfast show, which this Wednesday averaged 900,00 viewers.
As Morris Dickstein writes in "Dancing in the Dark," his recent cultural history of the 1930s, the roughneck hero of James T. Farrell's "Studs Lonigan," a house painter turned small-time thug, is "what the author himself might have become had he not left home and become a writer".
Although initially considered nonfunctional elements (the dark matter), recent evidence suggests that noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) play major roles in cellular biology and their deregulation is associated with human diseases.
It is also important because the population in general has been reducing its exposure to dark over recent decades as reflected in a decrease in the average duration of sleep (National Sleep Foundation 2005).
Bob Dylan went mostly for darker, more recent material.
More recently, his collaborative project with Kano and his recent Dark EP demonstrate the breadth of his musical interests, so it's great to hear a brand new mix from him that distills all this madness into one mass.
The most recent dark period was 1984 to 1986, while the statue's arm was being repaired.
"In a dark parallel, much recent writing about Wallace's fiction has replaced the complexities of his work with speculations about his life.
