The potent The Shadow Box (1980) was a made-for-TV movie about the interaction among three terminally ill patients and their visiting families; it starred Woodward, Valerie Harper, and Christopher Plummer.
But for readers willing to set aside such stereotypes, Mayra Montero's transfixing new novel, "The Red of His Shadow," offers potent insights into a highly complex world.
In Ison's poetic depiction, Rockaway is equal parts tourist trap and salt-sprayed idyll, where beachgoers frolic in the shadow of some potent dramatic irony: the reader's awareness of the devastation soon to arrive across the river makes for an unsettling countdown.
Naruto also invented the more potent Harem Jutsu, through his Shadow Clones, and the Pervy Jutsu where he adds an alluring outfit to his guise in order to add further enticement.
Sam Swann's Peter is inescapably less potent but, accompanied by six shadows who look like a boy ballet troupe, he cuts quite a dash.
Their homes are now in a region where the Marines have established a presence, the Taliban have moved into the shadows as a potent guerrilla force, and the Afghan government insists it will soon provide services and bring Marja into the national fold.
But his terror of the tyrannical mother who lovingly murmurs at you while rearranging your brain is what makes the two books written under that shadow, "Animal Farm" and "1984," so potent.
Three-quarter views shot from slightly below, these large photographs (size matters here) turn their practical subjects into big-screen cinematic presences, curvaceous and potent, lighted to emerge from the half-shadows as if for their close-ups.
Part of the reason this painting is so potent as an unfinished work is that the uncoloured shadows evoke mortal thoughts.
