Look at the two Tivoli landscapes: Claude's (1664-65) is dark, but with very precise brushstrokes and a high finish.

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The festival opens with Good Vibrations, the story of Terri Hooley, the music producer who discovered the Undertones and who championed the rise of punk music during a very dark and violent time in Northern Ireland's history.

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Obviously at 400 feet it's really quite dark but at the surface it starts off being very very light, even without a mask I can tell that.

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"Ford Madox Ford was very witty and dry and the humor comes out of a quite dark place, while Tom has a very strong sense of humor that's more rooted in intellectual wordplay, " she says.

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The asteroid's position was very close to the sun, so astronomers had to observe it when the sky was dark.

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"We need very accurate high resolution images over a very wide field for the Dark Energy Survey" says Dr Peter Doel from UCL's Optical Science Laboratory.

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And they were still nowhere near the bottom of the schemes that brewed in Mr Vesco's head, behind the pencil moustache, the slicked-back hair and the dark glasses, the very essence of a Hollywood fraudster.

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"It's not very good, especially this time of year when we're having to walk to work in the dark, complete darkness, " Ms Twogood said.

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