Inspired by their example, local minister's son Martin Phillipps launched the Chills, whose series of brilliant singles included Pink Frost, a throbbing ballad in the dark tradition of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart - itself a No 1 single in New Zealand, which shows how the counterculture had taken hold.
Doctors' involvement with various forms of torture has been a dark tradition of sorts, said Leonard Rubenstein, director of the Program on Human Rights, Health, and Conflict at Johns Hopkins University.
She plays Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, an enlightened college girl who comes back to her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi and sees old, dark traditions in a whole new light.
In a city notorious for wicked night life, this generation of businesses represents a continuation of a boozy after-dark tradition and a break from Reno's seedy past.
Unlike Mikael Blomkvist, Larsson's protagonist, who is more or less well adjusted by the standards of Scandinavian crime fiction, Harry Hole belongs to the genre's older, darker tradition, which probably owes something to American noir writing.
But a new internal report from the Navy has found that underneath the barrel rolls and national ego stroking, the Blue Angels are also emblematic of the darker traditions of the US military, typifying the pervasive harassment, homophobia, and over-the-top lewdness that continue to plague the armed forces amid a sexual assault epidemic.
To celebrate this dark cinematic tradition, we've pulled together a few of our favorite scenes that set chaotic battles with the law inside club spaces from IRS raids in The Last Days of Disco to John Wick's insistence on making his own rules.
To a point Mr. Fleischer and his collaborators — including the producer Dan Lin, who is a former Warner executive, and the writer Will Beall, an ex-homicide detective — follow that dark-tinted tradition.
He didn't have much use for the dark, inert tradition-bound sculptural staple of bronze; he had just two brief encounters with it, in 1930 and in 1943-44.
Unfortunately, behind this shimmering natural spectacle lies a darker human tradition of exploitation and corruption that has impoverished the Kenyan people to whom the reserve actually belongs, a tribe of nomadic cattle herders known as the Masai.
It appears to be a reaction against a holiday that has become increasingly anodyne, child-centric and commercialised, and an attempt to re-engage with a darker, pagan tradition.
