Behind it all lies an underworld that is much harder to write about than the Sicilian mafia.
— it is the exploration of the women's mental underworld that makes the book so singular an achievement in feminist literature; indeed, in all literature.
"But then the camera pans from a cheerful bed of roses to a churning, bug-filled underworld that is primal, menacing and, I think, ultimately the truth".
Repressive cultures and public prohibitions stimulate an underworld that is the inverse, sexually and behaviourally, of the values and attitudes enshrined in the public face of these societies.
Saddam, perfect recruit to the sinister, violent, conspiratorial underworld that was Iraqi politics, positioned himself at the heart of this process.
In a short time the film shows us that these boys live on the edge of an underworld that has become a mundane fact of life in Iran.
The drug trade fuels an unofficial economy and enriches an underworld that has a stake in maintaining the status quo, he said.
The government's failure to provide security or prosperity only adds to this sense of dependence on an underworld that relies on both barbaric violence and managerial agility to adapt to new market conditions.
"Geography is not just maps," said the guest curator, Roberta Casagrande-Kim, a scholar of classical concepts of the underworld that go back well before Dante took his journey through the nine circles of hell.
But it's the remarkably tough "Thieves' Highway," the lesser-known precursor of "Night and the City" as a descent into an expressionist urban underworld, that offers Dassin's fullest vision of injustice.
