Word: bleakness
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...hypnotic opening montage, for example. Five travelers on horseback--four men and a woman--are seen moving across the bleak landscape of southwestern England early in the 18th century. Fragmentary, half-perceived scenes reveal that most of the outward facts that can be learned about this little group are untrue. Their names, their social stations, their relationships to one another are shifting masks in a cryptic performance. They are surely bound together in a more ominous enterprise than they pretend, yet only one of them seems to know their destination. After a night at an inn, they ride on. Within...
...already the worst year in civil- aviation history, and there are still four months to go. The year has seen 15 air accidents worldwide and a death toll estimated at more than 1,500, surpassing the previous record, set in all of 1974, by at least 245 deaths. The bleak performance has ruffled even the most intrepid flyers, and now is raising disturbing issues about flight overcrowding and inattention to safety that could give airlines a bumpy ride in the months ahead. "The 'driver' is economics, not safety," Charles Miller, a former safety inspector for the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board...
...Lebanese Shiites have been reduced to conditions of economic and social hardship by the militry operations Israel has carried out in Lebanon; combined with the political unrest of the region in general, prospects for the Shiite population of southern Lebanon in the last few years have looked rather bleak...
...usual evolution of major artists in old age, whereby they become cozily grand paternal figures, patting their juniors on the back and reminiscing in autumnal mellowness about their dead coevals, has not happened to Bacon, who is apt to dismiss nearly everything painted in the 20th century with bleak contempt. He has gone on record as admiring Giacometti and Picasso; for a few others, a few words of respect; beyond that, the sense of isolation is ferocious. The motto of an aristocratic French family declared: "Roi ne puis, prince ne daigne, Rohan je suis" (King I cannot be; prince...
They converged in the bleak scrublands of southeastern Angola. Rebel Leader Jonas Savimbi played host to the others: spokesmen for the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the Afghan mujahedin and the hill tribes opposing the Communist regime in Laos. For two days they talked and socialized in Jamba, stronghold of Savimbi's well-armed and organized movement against Angola's Marxist government, and stood shoulder to shoulder with the American who had brought them together: Lewis Lehrman, millionaire Republican leader of a lobby called Citizens for America. The group announced the formation of an alliance, Democratic International, to support "the fight...