Word: bleakness
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MARIA SPERANSKAYA gives a bleak recitation of war's reality. She is 86, a retired doctor in Nizhni Novgorod who served as a combat surgeon through the worst of the war. One of her duties was to inspect trainloads of newly arrived wounded. She decided which of them should be treated and which were so badly off that they must be left to die. "I was known," she says, "for my precision...
Senator Specter has spoken repeatedly about the need for unity in the Republican Party. But he repeatedly erodes that unity by raising the controversial issue of abortion again and again, simply because he thinks a pro-abortion stance will improve his own bleak electoral prospects. Specter says he doesn't want to divide the party, but he raises a divisive issue time and again, just to get cheap political mileage out of it. The specter of Specter just won't go away...
...love surprisingly appears--or its slick semblance, in the form of a fortune hunter (Jon Tenney)--she comes to realize that if there is a choice between two forms of counterfeit affection, a cash-based passion may be superior to a condescending paternalism. The Heiress is a play of bleak and haunting subtleties...
While state attorney general Richard Blumenthal concedes that the situation is bleak, he insists that the state is actually on Hartford's side. "One of the ironies," Blumenthal notes, "is that Connecticut has been a leader in promoting racial balance by supporting measures such as magnet schools, school choice, charter schools. And there is more money in the state budget this year than in previous years for those kinds of measures." But reforming the system through such voluntary initiatives is "a very long, tedious process,'' says Mayor Peters. "In the meantime we're losing another half a generation of students...
...bleak financial results only sharpened the bitter charges and countercharges over who was responsible for the collapse of the $2.7 billion firm, which earned $35.7 million in 1993 and had seemed primed for increased profits in 1994. Disaffected directors blamed Agee for withholding from them the true state of the company. Partisans of the deposed chairman blamed Clark and a coterie of anonymous Agee detractors for precipitating a panic among lenders and stockholders, who, along with present and former MK employees, have brought 19 suits against Agee and the board...