On the screen, the dying and the dead fade in and out: here is a white woman smiling among the savages; there, a pile of bodies.
Many of the Australians who lived such lives in the 1980s, swallowing businesses they barely understood in order to build empires that later crashed, are now dead, faded or still facing court battles.
Amis is right to let them speak again, and he is haunted by the thought that the memory of the 20 million dead is fading too.
Better a few dead bodies, fading into the background of ordinary life, than chaos.
It sounds like hope and desperation, the waves of composer Elliot Goldenthal's score shaped by soaring contributions from Moby (including a cover of Joy Division's "New Dawn Fades"), Dead Can Dance chanteuse Lisa Gerrard, and Passengers, a supergroup comprising no less than U2 and Brian Eno.
With witnesses dead and memories fading, he could be the only one of the mob of Klansmen responsible for the killings to be tried.
The fancier garden centers, like Shades of Green in Lafayette, N.J. (973-300-0572), have kepthehe plants in excellent condition, grooming dead leaves and faded flowers and neatly arranging pots.
In the grim days when Red Bank was "Dead Banks," a faded post-industrial relic on the edge of nowhere, this long, narrow space in a turn-of-the-20th-century brick building was inhabited by a pink-walled luncheonette.
In my copy of Rich's essay "When We Dead Awaken," the faded yellow highlighter still remains recognizable on pages after more than thirty years: "Both the victimization and the anger experienced by women are real, and have real sources, everywhere in the environment, built into society, language, the structures of thought".
The Dead? His smile faded, his gaze drifted, and the color drained from his face as he answered, "Parrotheads".
