Word: bleakness
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Warner's vision of bleak selfishness pervades the play, enabling it to maintain its hold on the audience's malleable attention. Since the performance does not start until all the ticket-holders arrive, the audience is ushered into a solitary room--shocked into submission. Captives in the basement, the cast monopolizes attention. At the end, we are numb--shaken from the intrusion into protective shells. And saying we enjoyed the performance would be an insult to the production, since its message only affirms the vulnerability of our affections...
Soviet science officials consider prospects of new arms control agreements "very bleak," according to a Harvard professor who returned this week from an informal U.S.-Soviet science and national security conference in Moscow...
...accoutrements to the plot strike a visual chord. The costumes are exquisite, as are the wigs, the arrays of food, and the furnishings of the houses. Ranging from magnificent gardens to bleak deserts, director Carlos Diegues assaults us with a barrage of kaleidoscopic images. Even though these images never stop, no saturation point exists. Our eyes gladly devour these gorgeous pictures that affirm the gaudiness and materialism of Tijuco...
...prospects for the legislation's passage seem bleak. Yet something does have to be done. It is up to concerned legislators and responsible news people to call for these nationwide standards. By forcing each individual media outlet to make its own choice, the government and media organizations are avoiding their responsibility to insure fair elections. Unfortunately, most pressure on the broadcasting industry likely comes from defeated politicians complaining about television's undue influence on their races--and in Washington, defeated politicians do not carry much clout...
...perhaps the most enduring ritual in revolutionary Iran: the late-night summons, the slow walk along bleak prison corridors, and finally the waiting firing squad. Last week the executioners' guns took aim, on the specific orders of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, at one of the founding figures of the Islamic revolution that swept away Shah Reza Pahlavi in February 1979: Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, 46, the man who sprang to international prominence as Iran's Foreign Minister during the U.S. hostage crisis. Ghotbzadeh was shot after a 26-day trial in which he was accused by the Islamic military prosecutor...