Word: bleakness
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...from Belgium and Delicatessen from France, Zentropa finds movie energy in spiritual malaise. These films take their cue from the dystopic visions of Blade Runner and Brazil -- pictures set in the future but cluttered with decor from the film noir past. The imagery possesses a kind of dour voluptuousness: bleak and busy. Their crammed, skewed compositions excite the eye. These movies won't push Lethal 3 off the multiplex screen; they can't compete with Hollywood product. And that is the happy point. They are appealingly strange -- different from the American behemoths but, unlike most examples of European cine-minimalism...
Outgoing Graduate School Dean Brendan A. Maher says a bleak job market encourages students to remain at Harvard. Employment opportunities are scarce, and the national recession has delayed a predicted increase in jobs in academia, Maher says...
...Bleak Future...
Euro Disney got mixed results from two architects named Antoine. Grumbach's Sequoia Lodge is a nontoxic Rocky Mountain high -- restful, woodsy, organic. Predock's Hotel Santa Fe, once you get past its drive-in-theater billboard of Clint Eastwood, looks as bleak as a Southwestern insane asylum. For anyone who wants to get suicidally depressed at Euro Disney, this cinder-block shantytown is the place to bunk...
...Klerk gambled that, rather than vote `no' to further reform, white South Africans would see that the alternatives facing them were quite bleak. He wanted to use the referendum as a vote of confidence in his government...