Word: bleakness
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...proper place in this collection. Yet its presence would have set up a handy symbolic resonance. Tony Bennett, one of the supreme purveyors of popular song, here assembles 24 tunes associated with, and made popular by, Sinatra, ory days: the big-band beginnings, the series of alternately bleak ) and swinging LPs like In the Wee Small Hours and A Swingin' Affair -- concept albums before anyone had cooked up the phrase -- that carried Sinatra triumphantly through the 1950s to the pinnacle of his craft. Bennett, at this time, was enjoying significant success on his own, and though his celebrity missed...
...developers, Eric Rodine of Line Company Architects, says the new structure will remedy the bleak impression of Bow Street...
...developers, Eric Rodine of Line Company Architects, says the new structure will remedy the bleak impression of Bow Street...
...BOTTOM LINE: The second bleak volume in a relentlessly pessimistic novel cycle about the coming of white men to North America...
...search of themselves, Shampoo Planet documents the generation that follows the wistful twentysomethings of Generation X. That book turned heads in 1991, making its author, Douglas Coupland, a darling of the cultural critics who grasped for a definition of the world's up-and-comers. Shampoo Planet is equally bleak and cynical, equally rich with insights into a new set of young Americans...