Word: bleaknesses
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...budget proposal presented last week to the council, City Manager Robert W. Healy described the bleak outlook for Cambridge Hospital, saying that if legislation pending at the state and federal levels were passed, the city would probably have to raise taxes to cover costs...
...comes the thaw, and the index of once prohibited films has become an honor roll. Enforced neglect has turned their directors into celebrities, legendary fighters in the film resistance. Frumin, who immigrated to the U.S. after The Errors of Youth, a bleak road movie, was shelved a decade ago, returned to Leningrad last year to finish editing the film. Elem Klimov, a tenacious renegade whose own films (the historical drama Agony, the peasant- revolt parable Farewell) have been censored and suppressed, is the union's first secretary, unlocking vaults and disarming the Goskino octopus. For the first time, a filmmaker...
Even on a bleak, late-winter day, the little town of Clay Center, Kans., exudes all the homeyness and warmth of a Norman Rockwell painting. Tidy, freshly painted houses cover the small knoll that rises north of the town square. The homes of the middle class cost about $20,000; those of the poor are timeworn but neat. One of the tallest buildings in town is a barnlike structure built by a woman who gives baton-twirling lessons...
...never thought of it as a bleak picture. My feeling was wonderment -- this amazing carnival was spread out before me. I really love New York. It attracts ambitious people, not just at the top. Think of all the Asians who have come here and have the newspaper stands and candy stores and grocery shops. New York is the city of ambition...
...President Corazon Aquino, who has steadfastly refused to allow Marcos back into the country, did not budge. Despite Laurel's bleak assessment of Marcos, who is ailing with congestive heart failure, pneumonia and bronchial asthma, Aquino said, "I don't think he's dying." Aquino may have nothing to fear if Marcos returns home, but some believe Imelda might use the occasion to rally opposition to Aquino's rule. "Let's not kid ourselves for a moment," wrote columnist Maximo Soliven in the pro-Aquino Philippine Star. "She's raring for a comeback...