Word: bleakness
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...West German-U.S. relations. Schmidt's newly elected government had decided, though it had not yet announced it, that in 1981 Bonn would not meet its pledge to NATO to increase defense spending by 3%. Schmidt had apparently decided on a 1.75% increase. In light of the bleak economic conditions facing Western Europe, he reasoned that the 3% commitment, which he had vigorously favored at a 1978 European summit, "needs to be looked at anew." With only 5.3% inflation and 3.8% unemployment, West Germany is better off than many of its neighbors, but Schmidt warned in a television...
Fugard's latest drama concerns violated souls: three people who have been reduced to the bleak courage of despair. The aloe is a prickly outcast of a plant. Piet Bezuidenhout (Harris Yulin) sees in it the alchemy of survival. He is himself a spiny outcast, having been ostracized by his erstwhile comrades in the antiapartheid movement as a suspected informer...
...dismalness were a saleable commodity, November would have cornered the market. Season of chill winds, bleak landscapes, barren fields and patches of muc spattered snow, it's time for the sporting world to move indoors...
...work. The rest of the cast is excellent too, but because Tim is the only one who fully grasps Bergman's philosophical idea, he is the only one who can express a full range of free, unpuzzled emotions. His wisdom, compassion and anguish briefly quicken and warm a bleak film that is more interesting to analyze than to attend; for the fact is that Bergman has set himself a most formidable artistic task in this film. Marionettes, obviously, are less than human-the dead playthings, in Bergman's scheme of things, of a dead God. The great director...
...rise like an incoming tide. Major banks last week hiked the rate they charge their best corporate customers another half point to 14.5%. That could easily snuff out any strong economic recovery, and it may mean that business reports for the fourth quarter of the year will be as bleak as those released last week...