Word: bleakness
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...award at last year's Cannes Film Festival. His new Blue won Binoche the best-actress prize this September in Venice. So Kieslowski knows two or three things about showcasing beautiful women. He gives them an identity crisis, locks them alone in a Paris apartment and puts their chic, bleak spirits handsomely on display...
...Anybody that is committed to the ideal of political progress...has to explore the idea of hope...especially because times are so very bleak," Kushner said. "Hope and the future are synonymous...
...bleak employment outlook has created a jam at college placement offices, where new graduates vie with unemployed older ones for the few available jobs. "We're seeing a lot more of our graduates from a year ago coming into our office and competing with the current graduates," says Jean Hernandez, director of the University of Washington career center. At the same time, she adds, "students are more anxious than they were four years ago. In checking resumes, I see more students looking for work outside their majors and more who are doing jobs that don't require college degrees...
Bakersfield P.D. is the best-kept secret of the new season. To find the show on the weekly Nielsen chart, one practically has to turn the newspaper upside down: for the season to date, the Fox show ranks 99th out of a possible 101. Despite the bleak numbers, Fox programmers have renewed the show for the entire season -- evidence of either a sorry lack of replacements on the bench or a heartening faith in what is easily the best new comedy of the season...
...trying to crush her, Stewart decides. Ada has only two loves in this bleak world: her nine-year-old daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her piano. After Stewart cavalierly sells the instrument to his neighbor Baines (Keitel), Ada strikes a bargain with Baines. Under the guise of giving him lessons, she will buy the piano back from him, one black key at a time, by allowing certain sexual favors. One key is hers if she raises her skirt; two keys to let him touch her bare arm; five; 10 . . . Ada can win what she needs by meting out what...