Word: bleakness
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...frantically perfunctory bouts of sexmaking, the rich kids in the Spanish film Stories of the Kronen hang recklessly from a bridge over a busy highway. The teenage girls in the Thai film Daughters sniff glue as a break from their stealing and prostitution. In La Haine, denizens of the bleak projects outside Paris rip off Chinese grocers and face off in grudge matches with the police. For the drug-dealing Arab pre-teens in Bye-Bye, set in Marseilles, the only moral imperative is to stay alive. In another French drama, Le Plus Bel Age ... (Those Were the Days), middle...
...some piece of the puzzle of the Oklahoma tragedy was cut from this bleak patch of the Southwest, it seems fitting. But it is a piece that speaks to despair more than to anger, to the nihilism and the anonymity of America's underbelly...
...exhausting, though by no means tiresome. What relieves the strain is unfailing grace of language, as when Mayfield and Strawson drive the New Jersey Turnpike "through an outrage of traffic like the silent forced evacuation of Hell." Grace and seriousness are enough. Price's dour trilogy is rich, not bleak, a satisfying accomplishment by a fine artist...
Both teams have their share of bleak spots this season and, hence, both have something to prove at Eastern Sprints. The heavies have had the most trouble: second-place at San Diego and dualmeet losses to Princeton and Navy. The lights have only one blemish in six races: a surprising victimization at the hands of Princeton and Yale...
...Serbs, their historic allies; the Americans tend to favor the Muslims, who they feel are the clear victims; and the French are masterfully temporizing, which infuriates the Russians and the Americans. "I think there's a willingness to declare the Contact Group dead, but the alternative is so bleak that no one wants to face it," says a U.S. official...