Word: grimming
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...loped down the Carlton corridors dodging the dozens of would-be interviewers, photographers and starlets, all cadging for a moment with the world's most successful director. In the Palais des Festivals he heard applause erupt throughout the screening and watched an audience of grim professionals laugh and cry after two weeks of wheeling and dealing. During the last minute of the film, the applause kept growing until the fadeout, when an exaltation of bravos enveloped Spielberg as if Pavarotti and not a 3-ft. 6-in. spaceman were ascending into the heavens. The Cannes elite, happy...
...that the 100th class went out into the real world, there was a genuine fear that something was slipping away. The people's hold on the future, which had never been doubted in a century except during the grim days of the Depression, seemed to be loosening...
...confidence motion. Peres found a new weapon in the government's latest statistics on inflation, which showed that in April alone the consumer price index had climbed by 10.7%. Over the past year inflation has been running at a rate of 117%. There were other grim economic indicators as well. Unemployment now stands at 5.4%, a troublesome figure for socialist-minded Israel, and labor relations are in an unhappy state. Late last week employees of El Al, the national airline, went on a 24-hour strike to show their opposition to a government plan that would force the airline...
Butterfield's picture of China is indeed grim, but it is convincing. He has evidently scoured Chinese society to get at its roots, and the result is impressive. While one might wish he had investigated certain aspects of China in greater depth--rural China, for example--one cannot argue that this nearly 500 page book is not as complete as it could possibly be without being tiresome and longwinded...
...world's first deprogrammer. This among other muscle-bound links to contemporary life is definitely intentional. What is not is the flatness of Schwarzenegger's performance, the dullness of his odyssey. Instead of the giddy lift one sometimes obtains from improbably heroic adventures, one gets a grim endorsement of the uses of primitive mysticism and brutality. Conan is a sort of psychopathic Star Wars, stupid and stupefying. -By Richard Schickel