Word: bleakness
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...computer price wars and brisk sales are one bright spot in an otherwise bleak economy. Retail sales have not picked up substantially after the July tax cut. With so much going wrong in business, Americans apparently like to go home after a hard day's work and play a rip-roaring game of Pac-Man or chart their biorhythms on a home computer...
...dinner theater. Sweeney Todd is something more dangerous, and something close to thrilling. When produced in 1979, Sondheim's macabre opera was not the stuff theater-party hits are made on: a musical about a London barber who cuts his customers' throats, a stage set as bleak as Bedlam, a score full of tunes to scream on your way out of the theater. On cable this sprawling Guignol fits with surprising snugness, and Angela Lansbury still schemes and postures through the role of Sweeney's accomplice like a deranged Raggedy Ann. As Sweeney, George Hearn gives...
Despite those missing in action, the outlook for the team is not entirely bleak. Captain Andy Regan is in good condition and Peter Jelley, who was injured for much of last season, is in good condition. The biggest boost for the squad may be the return of Buck Logan. Sidelined last year after an operation on his heel, the senior distance specialist has finally recovered and is running in the form that makes him co-owner of the Harvard indoor two-mile record...
...faces the same bleak economic picture. Industrial recovery, as Chrysler learned, can come through close cooperation with organized labor. Yet President Reagan, formerly of the Screen Actors Guild, seems to have no more regard for unions than his counterpart across the Atlantic Reagan's wholesale liquidation of the air controllers union. PATCO, and his proposals for a flexible minimum wage and child labor standards fly in the face of trade union principles...
...Britain's Richard Broadhead, at 29 the youngest contender, thinks that going over the side of his 52-ft. cutter Perseverance of Medina in the tropics would be the worst thing that could happen. "In the rough southern ocean you wouldn't last a minute," is his bleak forecast. "But in the tropics you'd stick around until the sharks came and got you." Paul Rodgers, 37, of London, whose 55-ft. Spirit of Pentax is the narrowest boat in the race, has some daunting memories: he was leading the 1980 OSTAR when his boat was rammed...