Glover took on a fearsome subject, and at times it got the better of him.
"Decoding Darkness" tells how he and others have been hunting for the genetic causes of this so-called "brain dirt", a fearsome subject which he conveys with maximum fitness and panache.
Maybe it is a way to tame a fearsome subject by Hollywoodizing it, or maybe it is a way to drive home the dreadful stakes in the arid-sounding business of nonproliferation, but in several weeks of talking to specialists here and in Russia about the threats an amateur evildoer might pose to the homeland, I found an unnerving abundance of such morbid creativity.
Another group of fearsome creatures are the subject of an exhibit called "Sharks: Myth and Mystery," opening April 2 at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, Calif.
She and her first husband, Wang Jingchao, were journalists and devoted socialists, who were nonetheless subjected to fearsome "struggle sessions," publicly denounced and humiliated, separated from their young sons, and sent to labor camps — from which Wang Jingchao did not emerge alive.
The conservative Sunni city of 800,000 was subjected to a fearsome crackdown in 1982 by then-president Hafez Assad, killing some 20,000 people.
This time the subject is Pierre Boulez, the once fearsome, now almost (if not quite) beloved godfather of Total Serialism.
Haley has taken as her subject several of the most fearsome betes noires of our age: paedophilia, the internet's sinister imaginative power, and the symbiotic relationship between the two.
The use of a pinkish red glow, emanating from an unknown source, adds a feral, fearsome aura to the solemn aggression of the subject.
Its rapturously beautiful images, which have an extraordinary, painterly sensitivity to light — as is apt for a movie on the central subject of Western art — and the awesome range and fearsome intensity of the emotional world that he conjures do indeed do their subject justice.
They also imaged the subjects' brains as they looked at pictures of fearsome or threatening situations, both natural (snakes, spiders, sharks) and humanmade (explosions, car wrecks, guns).
