Word: bleakness
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...Grand Highway, the lad learns conventional wisdom, and the film evokes familiar smiles and tears. In Louis Malle's Au Revoir les Enfants, the Nazi occupation of France triggers a boy's crisis of conscience. Malle's movie, sure to be nominated for the foreign-language Oscar, is the bleak, heartbreaking goods, but it shares with the Hallstrom and Hubert films a stringent modesty of tone. All three pictures build their stories through brief snapshots of childhood traumas, like pulsars of memory from the past we all live...
...polls. "Our stance has enhanced our position in the colored community," he says. "We are no longer seen as collaborators with the system." But Botha is famously intolerant of opposition and is unlikely to repeal the Group Areas Act. Hendrickse's opinion of the prospects for reform this year: "Bleak...
...many physicians, myself included, who believe that the place where life and death decisions should be made is at the bedside, between the patient, family, doctor and, if appropriate, a religious representative, and that there's no place for the courts in this decision." Even so, if Debbie's bleak saga yields any lesson, it is that some physicians may need more help and guidance in navigating the murky area between unending pain and death...
Almost daily some story or broadcast is sent out from Iowa that laments the "bleak and frozen landscape." Frozen it is, sometimes as deep as five feet if no snow cover comes to hold in the natural heat. But bleak? Bleak is in the eye of the beholder. Eagles congregate in winter along the Mississippi. Kids whack cans across frozen ponds and belly flop on their sleds down crystalline hills. And on some nights, with moonlight glazing the fields, come the howls of coyotes, a surviving shiver from other centuries when great adventure lay over that uncharted horizon...
...After a bleak year of layoffs, dissension and a disappearing anchor, CBS News is suddenly on the offensive once again...