Word: bleakness
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...current prospects for damping down these dangers seem bleak. Some of the more obvious steps have been officially rejected, or even sneered at, by one side or the other. Nonetheless, there are moves the U.S. could undertake, without violating any of Reagan's ideological convictions, to make the superpower relationship less menacing and more manageable. Among them...
Peter Gabriel: Shock the Monkey (Brian Grant). Scarier than most horror movies; an electroshock anthem of alienation, with bleak music and bleached light...
...that initial overture fell through because the police lacked proof that the captives were still alive, the cat-and-mouse game grew even more elaborate. One anonymous letter leaked the names of three likely suspects, which led the police to keep watch over a carpenters' yard in a bleak Amsterdam industrial park. While pursuing that lead the authorities agreed to turn over the ransom. They stuffed an estimated $10 million into postal bags and placed the cash inside a van. Then a lone driver, communicating with the kidnapers over a walkie-talkie, followed their directions through a 120-mile...
However, it is fair to say that Saturdays had been bleak for some time (three winning seasons in 21 years) before Devaney arrived in 1962. Unlike Osborne, he did not have to learn how to smile. On a wall of Devaney's office, now the chamber of the athletic director, two tattered hobos are in conference, and one is saying, ". . . then we lost our sixth to Keen State...
...kicked in/ He's the neighborhood bully." Union Sundown is an agitated piece about how dreams of workers and solidarity have been sold out by greed, while the song that ends the album, Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight, combines tentative feelings of love with bleak reveries of fate in a way that no writer of simple love songs ever could...