Word: bleakness
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...bleak northeastern mountains of North Korea, where there is never much food, people are starving to death in slow motion--alone, abandoned, far from television's electronic eye. Their government cannot help them and does not want the world to witness its shame...
Though in common they have youth, a propensity for bleak subject matter and an ability to write beautifully about it, the three playwrights are very different. Marber, a Londoner who got his start on the comedy circuit performing stand-up and working with the popular television comedian Steve Coogan, crafts intricately layered, well-observed, heartfelt plays in a realistic vein about contemporary relationships. McDonagh is more a folkwriter in the tradition of J.M. Synge. His macabre, wildly funny and over-the-top tragicomedies are slightly absurdist, set in remote parts of rural Ireland and peopled with comic grotesques--or literal...
...Likewise, while Xers see themselves more as life-long job hoppers than as company loyalists, they profess far more satisfaction with their work than their elders. "Boomers entered the marketplace years ago with high expectations," says Yankelovich's Smith. "And when they were disappointed, they thought the future looked bleak for Xers. So they portrayed them as a loser generation...
DIED. WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, 67, fiery priest who sparked hope in the bleak aftermath of Detroit's 1967 race riots by founding a hugely successful organization to feed and train the urban poor; of complications related to cancer; in Detroit. The once shaggy-haired cleric led Focus: HOPE while zipping about his parish on a Harley-Davidson...
...tired of role models' coming from the sports arena. If our future is in the hands of one man's putt, it is a bleak future." KIENEN MASON Baltimore, Maryland...