Word: bleaknesses
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Some enterprises, like the manufacturing of the Trabant, are probably unsalable at any price. They may include major polluters like chemical companies and lignite mines. The outdated state steel company faces a bleak future since its products typically cost three times West German prices. The outlook for agriculture is also grim since farm prices in the G.D.R. are above even the inflated European Community level...
...future may not be as bleak as the present. Thomas Ryder, president of American Express Publishing, predicts that the consumer-magazine industry will emerge from its slump during the next 18 months "shaken, but stronger for it." In the meantime, certain less glamorous market niches are flourishing: witness the success of highly targeted publications like Model Railroader and Golf Illustrated. Service and life-style magazines, meanwhile, , are attracting some keenly interested, well-financed investors. American Express recently acquired D (for Dallas) and Atlanta as part of a plan to expand into 20 city markets. And on June 1 Time...
Freyer's is a largely bleak view of the operas' worlds. The evil courtiers who overthrow Akhnaten are costumed as devils and bestial thugs; Gandhi's followers, beaten by police near the opera's close, look like refugees from Night of the Living Dead. Yet there are stage pictures of surpassing beauty too, as when Akhnaten's domestic life is represented by a giant suspended wheel in which sit, friezelike, the Pharaoh and his six identical daughters. Almost unfailingly, Freyer has found an image to match the mood of the music, and it is in such audio-visual synthesis that...
...quagmire of glasnost. Ian McEwan, a British novelist who is a breathtaking master of nasty fiction (The Cement Garden), as well as a few sentimental excursions (The Child in Time), has written a blueprint for the future of the genre. The key is not in nostalgia, evoking the bleak era when real men wore raincoats, but in the brisk assumption of a '90s vantage point, leaving the author free to make all kinds of moral and social comments -- rather like choreographing the doings at an ant farm...
...playwright, Alan Ayckbourn, 51, is represented in the West End by a new play, Man of the Moment, and a stunning revival, Absurd Person Singular, and at his regional theater in Scarborough by yet another debut, Body Language. All three are characteristically bleak and acidulous comedies staged by the author himself. The conventional wisdom about Ayckbourn has been that he started as a boulevard farceur and turned darker in the course of his 39 plays. Yet Absurd, from supposedly sunnier days in 1971, shows that acutely observed misery and hypocrisy have been his comic subjects all along. The funniest scene...