Word: bleakness
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...Bleak times lie ahead, For the time being. Crimson readers can string themselves along on artificial support, but soon our supply will run out. The methadone of "Bloom County" and "Funky Winkerbean" may alleviate the ordeal on some mornings: flashbacks from old "Doonesbury" collections may bring relief on others...
...quarter earnings. The news reverberated through Wall Street. Analysts began recalculating profit estimates of the best-known games manufacturers, trying to divine whether the Atari setback had more cosmic implications. By week's end no one was quite ready to declare that the stock market was flashing a bleak "Game Over" for the popular amusements. But it seemed clear that video-game makers would no longer be able to rack up record profits with the ease of a twelve-year-old joystick junkie who stars...
...these bleak economic times, it seems good common sense--and seasonal cheer--to allocate such monies for a scholarship fund which is badly in need of replenishing. The students of Massachusetts ought to raise high their returnable beer bottles to Atkins and his colleagues who supported the amendment, and hope that Governor King will join in the toast...
...this month at the antiwar March Against Death, the demonstrators invented a perfect piece of moral theater by reciting, one at a time, the names of 40,000 Americans who had been killed up to then. Last Wednesday morning, in a chapel at Washington's National Cathedral, the bleak recitation began again, and it seemed all the more powerful. There was now a final tally; most of the 230 readers had friends or kin among the dead, and a complicated sadness had replaced the agitprop bitterness of November 1969. David DeChant, 35, a former Marine Corps sergeant who spent...
...seances") and has a huge library of books on the occult. He bought a summer house on an island off the Danish coast as a refuge for himself, his wife Barbara and their three children, just in case Nostradamus' prediction of a world war comes true. The bleak side of the Teutonic soul occasionally stares out uneasily from behind the affable visage. But it is quickly dispelled with the German equivalent of a verbal shrug: "Naja," says Prey, and gloomy Faust retreats. He seems constitutionally incapable of becoming too morose. After all, when pressed, he admits that one role...