Word: bleaknesses
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...Glavnoye Upravlenie Lagerey, or Main Directorate of Camps. She then lays out in sober detail the daily life, work and death of the prisoners, their survival mechanisms and their resistance. She has read just about everything written on the subject. This includes the brilliant memoirs of Lev Razgon, the bleak searing stories and poems of Varlaam Shalamov, the son of an orthodox missionary to Alaska who spent over 20 years in the most horrific of the camps. (He died, largely unrecognized, in misery in Moscow in 1982. There are few happy endings to Gulag stories.) But she makes superb...
...years. The result; as state budgets shrink, Europe's consumers will have to rely more on themselves for things they once took for granted - like retirement benefits and comprehensive health care. For some, that will mean entering the investment culture for the first time - just when the outlook is bleak. For others, it will mean holding their noses and forging ahead despite lousy market conditions. Not even large corporations are safe - in the U.K., the government is drawing up plans for compulsory insurance for some corporate pension schemes, many of which currently face huge deficits. A few simple rules...
...University releases an internal investigation of the worldwide college apparel manufacturing industry, finding conditions bleak for workers...
...lacking in the overt didacticism that has scored many of Loach's later films, not always to their advantage. Its ending will also remind viewers of Truffaut's The 400 Blows--a lonely lad standing on an empty shore, contemplating a young life gone wrong, a future full of bleak ambiguity. But that obvious reference somehow enhances Sweet Sixteen, unselfconsciously connecting it to an honorable and engaging modern screen tradition. Written by Paul Laverty without a wasted or imprecise word, it refuses to sentimentalize Liam or explain him sociologically. It just lets him live--sometimes jauntily, sometimes tormentedly, but always...
Verba says he prefers to read novels in his spare time, mixing contemporary fiction with classics. He went through a phase where he would devote each summer to reading a thick Charles Dickens novel like Bleak House...