Word: bleakness
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Curtis Gates is getting sentimental. The "athlete of the decade" at his inner-city high school, he once dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player. Some 10 years later he is an overweight wage-laborer in a bleak Chicago factory. Sometimes, he confesses to the camera, his eyes well up and he wonders whether he isn't an abject failure in life...
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone offered a bleak and often apocalyptic picture of media and violence in the 20th century in an address at the Law School last night...
...come: "Our graves would go untended, and the graves of those who had tended ours would go untended ..." And what will remain? "The love bravely expressed, and the moment when you danced and your heart danced with you." Frazier's vision is an epiphany as moving as it is bleak and hard...
Which makes this winter all the more bleak. Guys named Fehr, Ravitch. Usery, Bettman and Goodenow have been throwing words left and right across the front pages of the New York Times quicker than Nolan Ryan fastballs, but there's nary a scrap for the hungry dogs around the edge of the big league table to munch...
...nearby Suffolk Downs Recetrack, the bleak financial figures are no different, say track officials...