Word: bleakness
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...bleak as Poland's economic plight may seem, experts are not unanimous in writing the country off as incurable. Says the University of London's Portes: "Poland has the industrial capacity and the skilled labor force to come back quickly...
...outlook thus remains bleak. A concerted government campaign has begun to remove the contaminated oil from the market (Spanish consumers were offered free olive oil in exchange for the suspect brands). But it may be too late to catch all of the tainted oil. Besides, Spaniards use cooking oil at a rate of 800,000 tons a year, even for canning vegetables, preserving meats, and baking. These preserved foodstuffs, put up in nobody knows how many Spanish cupboards, could prove to be time bombs. -ByBJ. Phillips...
...shrugging or exacting fatal revenge, she spins three sprightly variations on the theme. Nicholas' sturdiest friend and Kate's most dastardly seducer are both played by the same actor: Bob Peck has a biathlon field day exhibiting the far poles of man's temperaments. Even John Woodvine, a bleak house of malevolence as old Ralph Nickleby, gets to sing as the star of a comic opera skit...
...house we remember. Sometimes it stands a little too near the freeway, in a raw mat of sodded lawn-a poignant dry-green whiffle of grass with a single sapling in it that gives no more shade than a swizzle stick. The house has the frank, bleak starkness of the cut-rate. Its interiors are minimalist, and grimly candid about it. No woodwork, no extras, no little frills of gentility any more. No front hall. One bathroom, with the cheapest fixtures, no bathtub...
Ideologically and temperamentally, Green is a pessimist who echoes Freud's fundamentally tragic view: humankind's animal instincts limit the realization of its ideals. Such a bleak belief is, of course, a wellspring of humor. Freud did not promise a rose garden, only that the aim of treatment was "transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness." Green informs and amuses Malcolm with seriocomic tales about the infantile needs of himself and other psychoanalysts: their sharp clothes, boring talk of summer real estate, erotic entanglements with patients and strivings for position and prestige. Green's own analysis...