The photograph's eerie loveliness always makes me think of the darkness that was to come, for Russia and for the rest of the world, and how much of it Khaldei managed to record. — Michael Specter Judy Linn, Karenn, December 1985 198585)/Courtesy Feature Inc., NY.
One I can think of is The Darkness, with Jackie and Jenny watching To Kill a Mockingbird in her apartment.
We too often think of Iran in terms of darkness, as if through the blackness of the veil.
Where the English actress Claire Skinner, playing Sydney's inquiring wife, acquired her American accent is an open question, but it has been a long time since I have heard actual shrieks during a play, and when Mr. Russell Beale lets rip at the electrics company that risks plunging all concerned into darkness, think of the moment as a prelude to his Lear-to-come.
For some reason, as he beams through the darkness, I think of Orson Welles in The Third Man.
Why should I think of that now in these days of darkness and indescribable carnage?
When I think of those moments, I remember the darkness of the restaurant, the flickering candles.
I can't think of any great dramas that don't have darkness in them.
Again, we so often think of rape as something aggressive, painful and cast in street darkness.
Before I integrated a more organic, more pagan, gnosis into my experience of the Advent season, I hadn't thought of December's darkness as a holy, "silky silence that descends so early".
