Word: bleakness
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...skies looked bleak for the Crimson. Harvard had its back against the wall. The final nail was being hammered into the coffin, Sportswriters were mixing their metaphors...
...mind of her own. When the daughter makes noises about the revolution and duty, the mother calmly responds: "You spend your life exactly as I did. Cooking and nannying for other people. An all-purpose female drudge." This assessment of Alice's labors is both accurate and staggeringly bleak. Surely another hoax is at hand? Perhaps Doris Lessing has allowed her name to be used as a pseudonym by some elderly, reactionary male? Not likely. The Good Terrorist has its share of flaws, but Lessing's intelligence and stern conscience come through loud and clear...
Then again, Barbie's active ways may be misleading. For the situation among children is particularly bleak. American youth has got fatter than it was in the '60s, according to HHS tests. Young people spend an average of 13 hours a week in sports or other exercise. They spend three to four times that watching TV and playing video games. Schoolchildren's scores are now declining for strength, power, speed, agility and cardiovascular fitness. The Amateur Athletic Union reports that 36% of youngsters meet its standards for push-ups, high jumps, long jumps, endurance runs and sprints. Just...
...Serling's classic series, but the early signs are encouraging. A segment in the premiere show features Melinda Dillon as a harried housewife who has the power to make her noisy world stop dead in its tracks. The tone of antic irony, however, leaves the viewer unprepared for a bleak and jarring denouement. Better realized is a future segment starring Comedian Robert Klein as a man who is plunged into a world where words have inexplicably changed their meaning. It is a nifty premise, directed in lucid, economical style by Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street). The episode...
...trucking derby. "The saddest kind of failure," says Tartikoff, "is when you aim low and miss. At least when you aim higher and miss, you can hide behind your target and say, 'It's the audience's fault.' " Fortunately for Tartikoff, one night in the dead of that bleak winter his baby daughter was crying, and Dad decided to keep Mom company. He switched on The Tonight Show, where Dr. William H. Cosby, Ed.D. (U. Mass.) was telling a story about middle- aged parents trying to instruct their kids in the facts of life. Next morning, Tartikoff phoned Cosby...