Word: bleakness
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...cellar-like Kronauer Space is well-suited for the play, which alternates between outdoor scenes and the dungeon-like atmosphere of the recovery center. Set designer Kate Khamsi '95 deserves kudos for rendering both the interior and exterior settings with a bleak but psychedelic flair. Inside the recovery center, for instance, the common room is decked out in metal, with a silver duct-taped couch and a plant partially painted silver. These touches do more than conjure up images of Warhol's factory; they remind the audience how robotic pharmacueticals can make people...
Phillips sees White Rabbit as part of the tradition of Californian dystopian novels. When she began writing, her vision of California was relatively bleak. She wanted to emphasize the isolation and loneliness that often comes with living in a condominium community like Ruth's "Paradise Lagoon." She was also concerned with the rapid growth and development that was choking the state. Now, after a few Boston winters, Phillips says her vision of California is more positive...
Baez shared a personal story with the audience of a life on the streets, failing grades in school and a bleak outlook on life...
...first sentence of this fine, brooding novel expresses not hate but loss: "My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life there was nothing standing between myself and eternity; at my back was always a bleak, black wind." The narrator and title figure is Xuela Claudette Richardson, 70, a native of Dominica, by ancestry a mix of Carib, African and Scot, by emotional makeup surely part Kincaid. Since she has no mother (her father is dutiful but distant; in any case men are minor planets in the author's cosmology), she reinvents herself...
...measure of just how bleak those days were that this gleaming instant came when Alan at last read the thick contract from their health plan, Health Net of Woodland Hills, California. Like most Americans enrolled in such plans, the couple had never studied the document. Now, however, the specifics had become a matter of vital interest. "Good news," Alan announced from his end of the family sofa in Murietta, California. "It's covered...