Word: bleakness
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...camera is so kind. The eyes have always had it, and Bowie has always been as successful with a lens as a microphone. His appearance in The Man Who Fell to Earth was both a dissection of the Bowie mythology to that point and a portent of the bleak direction it was about to take. Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, to be released in America in the fall, casts Bowie for the first time in a heroic mold, as a neurotic but noble British P.O.W. in Java during World War II. Bowie is graceful and compelling in the part...
...worldwide picture is not entirely bleak. China, which suffered some kind of drought every year between 1949 and 1982, received a welcome spate of April showers. So too, the worst drought in Australia's history ended last March, when steady rainfall began soaking much of the country. As new seeds have been planted, optimism has flowered. But Australian farmers estimate it could take seven years to undo the damage. In drought-ravaged areas around the world, such problems would seem like blessings. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by Dean Brelis/New Delhi and Gavin Scott/Rio de Janeiro, with other bureaus
...farming beginning in the 17th century. This rich earth is gradually falling into the hands of interlocking conglomerates, and the play implies that the Japanese may eventually own it. Against this backdrop Churchill fashions a kind of Under Milk Wood as it might have been seen through the bleak, baleful eyes of Thomas Hardy...
...there is more to Lucas' bleak expression than weariness or worry. There is a fundamental, existential malaise, and as he describes it, the telling of the Star Wars saga has taken a terrible toll on him. "The sacrifice I've made for Star Wars may have been greater than I wanted," he says. "After Graffiti, Star Wars could have gone in the toilet and it wouldn't have mattered financially. It's an interesting choice I made, and now I'm burned out. In fact, I was burned out a couple of years...
Swedish stockbrokers were as gloomy last week as characters in a bleak Ingmar Bergman movie. The Stockholm stock exchange was still and silent, idled temporarily by a total breakdown in an electronic system for registering trades. Millions of transactions being processed at the time of the crash were suddenly in limbo. Said Broker Sven Hagströmer: "It's a scandal. You can't get your money, and you can't get your stocks." Nothing so disastrous had happened to the exchange since it shut down during a financial panic in 1932 after Match King Ivar Kreuger...