Word: bleakness
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...FANS OF MASTERPIECE THEatre well know, adaptations of great books sometimes make for less than great viewing. Anyone out there in favor of some Bleak House reruns? All the more reason to cheer, therefore, when one of public TV's bundles from Britain elegantly packages a literary classic...
Individual tragedies easily become subsumed within impersonal statistics. Their various plights are often the result of the accretion of missteps after which the descent into the bleak underside of life seems unstoppable...
...idiosyncratic novel cycle, Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes. Corruption of native inhabitants by Europeans is the broad theme of this enormously ambitious project, and the first two volumes, The Ice-Shirt, about Greenland, and Fathers and Crows, about the settling of Quebec, presented the author's bleak argument with stinging force. What he argues for is a vision of absolute evil: civilization, native cultures not excepted, is a pestilence, and mankind is a monstrous curse laid upon nature...
...Edzard does convey the tone of the play masterfully. Despite the hearty doese of romance, "As You Like It" revels in a misanthropic melancholy. The faceless, charmless interior sets of lobbies and corridors convey a barren, hollow grandeur, whole the bleak urban wasteland of rubble-strewn lots and disused machinery has an equally oppressive effect. London's grey skies and wan, pallid bussinesspeople, seckled with liverspots, contribute to the gloom...
...billion, with $5 billion more in the pipeline. Yet the pool of street criminals keeps rising. In the past decade, the number of federal and state inmates has doubled, to 925,000, while the local jail population has nearly tripled, to 450,000. State by state, the outlook is bleak. Washington, for instance, has witnessed a 79% increase in its jail population and an 86% increase in prison capacity, though the state population has grown just 18%. "At that rate," says Governor Mike Lowry, "everyone in Washington State will be working in -- or in -- prison...