Word: bleakness
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Summer job prospects in many cities are bleak, as the line of unemployed adults grows. In Detroit, already burdened by auto industry layoffs, 32% of young white people and 54% of black youths aged 16 to 19 expect to be jobless. "A lot of the kids who have more leisure time because they can't get jobs are going to wind up in trouble," frets Norman Isotalo of the Michigan Employment Security Commission. In the Boston area, 10,000 young people have applied for 2,000 lifeguard, clerk, bathhouse attendant and other such jobs paying $145-$178 a week...
...going much more difficult. As they emerged over land from the Gulf of Oman, flying without lights in the moonlit night, two of the choppers ran into a fierce desert sandstorm. Both developed crippling problems. One could not stay aloft because of hydraulic troubles and settled down in the bleak desert. Another helicopter crew found the disabled craft, picked up its occupants and completed the five-hour, 500 nautical mile flight to the landing strip. The second laboring chopper discovered a faulty gyro and turned back to the Nimitz, which was standing offshore. Finally, six of the eight...
...Shakespeare's Hamlet warns, Carter's enlarged conscience makes a coward of him, then by almost every measure in this sad nation, the future is bleak. It is a season for new resolve, for a display of determination that this White House has never reached before. These days cry out for daring, defiance, even jauntiness. Carter tried, failed, but his message now should be, let the world beware...
However, Schlondorff fails to give a similar sense of irony to a Beckettian sequence with an eel fisherman on a stark beach. While Oskar keeps a cold, dark view on life, the film changes tone: now it is bleak and blue, now it is warm and red. Does Schlondorff misunderstand his little hero or has he simply made only token efforts at linking each sequence to the whole? He manages to reduce the most profound chapter of Grass' novel, a discussion about art and life between a midget magician and a soliderly artist to a frolicking picnic atop a cement...
...change in the eye of the viewer belongs to Ira Wohl, a gifted documentary film maker who is also Philly's cousin. His approach during three years of filming was quite unlike the disdainful stare of cinéma verité, although much of what he recorded is bleak. The tone of the film is passionate advocacy, and its real subject is the dignity of love in a family hard-pressed by age and illness. Pearl, Philly's mother, is in her late 70s, and Max, his father, is three years older and ailing. They have sheltered Philly...