Word: bleakness
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...economic news continues to be pretty bleak. Jobless claims rose to their highest levels in a year last Thursday, marking their 10th straight week above 400,000. In recent weeks, cash-strapped states and cities across the country have announced new taxes and painful spending cuts for police, schools and other government services. And despite the war's end and the gradual restoration of order in Baghdad, the Dow has not spiked as some had hoped. Though there are flecks of good news, such as an unexpected rise in purchases of big-ticket items, the grumpy economy is still Bush...
Death Valley. The very name repels. So do the superlatives: the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere (282 ft. below sea level), one of the hottest places on earth (record high: 134°F) and one of the dryest (average annual rainfall: 1.8 in.). A vast stretch of nothingness. Boring. Bleak. Empty. Right...
...took a job at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a nuclear-weapons research facility. He resigned last week, and the lab is investigating whether any of its classified data were leaked. As for Leung, she remains in custody as a flight risk. Her American Dream is now a bleak nightmare...
...tickles and hapless, bizarre love stories out of the strangers he meets. Disappointed love is the sole subject of Rhodes' two earlier books of short stories, and the dog's journey neatly leads his author back to this familiar and fertile form. His first book, Anthropology, consisted of 101 bleak and charming love stories, each of exactly 101 words. His second collection, Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love, featured, among other oddities, a besotted Vietnamese boy who has himself turned into a cello so he can lie forever in the arms of a young woman who only...
...assured, hurrah for our courageous troops. Cheerleading is a plausible presidential function, I suppose, but an odd thing has happened to Bush as the war has progressed. He has not grown in stature or gravitas, as wartime leaders usually do; he may have diminished. He seems imprisoned in a bleak, hortatory rhetoric of simple sentences and simpler ideas. Freedom good. Tyranny bad. We Tarzan, world Jane...