Word: bleakness
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...squad. And his worst fears were confirmed in the season's first important contest. After victories over Bates and Bowdoin, Amherst rolled into town in mid-October and rolled over the Crimson, in a game that must have made the prospects for the upcoming Ivy campaign look bleak. "While it may be long before Harvard men forget the game last Saturday, it will be better if we face only the future and seek only to master the lessons taught us by the game," he wrote, and then added, perhaps a tad dramatically, "above all we must not give up hope...
...Waugh's narrative prose in addition to his dialogue. "We went for the book whole," says Producer Derek Granger. "We were true to its faults as well as its virtues, but the faults-the over luxuriance, for instance-are also rather appealing. Waugh wrote it during a very bleak period of World War II, and he looked back to his days in Oxford as golden, halcyon." The most expensive TV production ever to come from Britain (about $9.9 million), Brideshead Revisited has a cast that includes John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Mona Washbourne, Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews...
...dean, a "hungry observer," describes the bleak utilitarianism and pinched daily life in the old Eastern European capital. Earthquake damage is crudely patched if repaired at all; the public crematorium is a factory where the dead are reduced unceremoniously to convenient size; his wife's childhood home, once a center of culture and comfort, is only a notch above a slum tenement: "Radiators turned cold after breakfast. The faucets went dry at 8 a.m. and did not run again until evening. The bathtub had no stopper. You flushed the toilet with buckets of water...
...follows the pair to their eventual downfall when Arthur becomes suspect in a murder. If it weren't for a surprisingly original gimmick, the movie might have just been another lowlife melodrama in the style of The Postman Always Rings Twice. But as the two lovers travel through the bleak Chicago landscape, they occasionally burst into mimicries of the kind of elaborate Busby Berkeley song-and-dance numbers Hollywood so admired during the depression. When Arthur fails to get a loan at the bank, for instance, hundreds of smiling girls in black-and-white fur bunnysuits suddenly appear, highstepping wildly...
...future looks bleak for the News. current rumor has it that it would cost the Tribune company $85 million to close down the paper and pay off its employees, while it would take $60 million to renovate the product for the long haul. But those numbers distort the picture. The News is written for part of New York that, while still huge by almost any standard, is shrinking; and American business does not stay in the games when the prizes keep getting smaller. Sooner or later, and probably earlier than most expect, the Daily News will join the Brooklyn Dodgers...