Word: bleakness
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...Senate, the military will probably be forced to operate under makeshift "continuing resolutions" that will simply extend funding at current levels. These are roughly $500 million less per month than Reagan wants. Hatfield also pledged to work against reauthorizing spending for the C.B.I, if the bill is vetoed. These bleak prospects prompted Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz to urge the President to sign the appropriations bill...
...surprisingly, therefore, the political picture in the Midwest is not as bleak for Reagan as it might be. Moreover, farmers tend to be conservative politically and well inclined toward Reagan's politics. Even those who disagree with his policies tend to admire the President's personal style, and doubt that they will readily abandon him. "I don't blame Reaganomics or anything the President has done," says John Ed Tarkington, 36, who raises rice and soybeans on his 1,900-acre farm near Almyra. Ark. "We are at the mercy of the market." Indeed, many farmers still...
...Quartets after the ensemble for which they were written, and the Violin Concerto, premiered by Isaac Stern. But his most ambitious rapprochement with the past has come not in instrumental music but in opera. The Confidence Man, with a libretto by Gene Rochberg based on Herman Melville's bleak, cynical novel, is currently on display at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico...
Obvious winners abound for example, "I Love a Man in a Uniform," an undisguised satire of militarism, and "We Live as We Dream Alone," a most bleak outlook on individuals within society "It Is Not Enough" is an animalistic attack on western sexual mores from both the man and woman's point of view. (The Gang, by the was recently solved its long-brewing bassist problem with the addition of the multi-talented Sara Lee hurray for coeducation in rock!) The biting "The History of the World" is a disguised condemnation of imperialism and the album's underdog success. "When...
...nowhere and knocking them down. Out of this basic and by no means original insight, Irving crafted a bestseller and something more. His hero, T.S. Garp, that wise and foolish, gentle and fierce writer-wrestler has become a sort of postmodernist Everyman, and his often deadly adventures on the bleak bat lefields of the contemporary war between the sexes have given the book an almost mythic coloration for many readers...