Word: bleakness
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...Robert Duvall stars with Donald Pleasance (an easy bit of casting); look for cameos by Yul Brynner and Chiang Kai-Shek. Imagine a world of naked sadism, prescription drugs and robot policemen ? where the only erotic words are "no one is watching," and everyone really is. Imagine a bleak, bleached future in which "sexual perversion" (in this case, just regular sex) was a punishable crime...
...make change, but not necessarily progress. The new party leadership's support for scaling back state-owned businesses is increasing unemployment with no safety net for displaced workers. Florcruz reports that while many of the downsized are retrained for new jobs, others end up washing cars or, in the bleak factory-driven Northern economy, "standing on street corners and wandering the parks...
...Annenberg Hall, which, of course, easily took the 1996 Best Renovation award, things are looking bleak. There's no fro-yo in sight, upperclass students are as unwelcome as ever, and the line for dinner during orientation week regularly stretched to record length, past the fountain and into the plaza in front of the Science Center...
...relentless. The rice paddies, which need at least a foot of water, have less than one or two inches. The corn, which should be as tall as I am at this time of year, is barely half my height. Prospects for both the rice and the corn harvests are bleak. Everything is parched, and with each rainless day, water is vanishing with cruel rapidity. One evening I was at a huge lake, the Sohung reservoir, in the country's breadbasket. To be accurate, I was at what was once a huge lake. It is 96% gone, simply evaporated into thin...
...have rarely seen, in a picture intended for mainstream audiences, the kind of sustained suffering Moore's character endures here. But the director, Ridley Scott, a great imagist, imparts a bleak, often astonishing beauty to the brutal, frantic (and generally drenched) scramble of training exercises. And he does not eroticize the movie's violence, handling the kinky, if unspoken, attraction that develops between O'Neil and Viggo Mortensen's master chief, the man in charge of clubbing the baby SEALs into fighting trim, with sardonic objectivity. We know where Scott's sympathies lie--he did, after all, make those terrific...