Word: sombrous
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...Nowadays the picture is not so pretty. The skies over Manila Bay are typically sombrous, hazed with diesel pollution. If the fumes give you a headache, you can take a cab to the "golden ghetto" of Makati - the city's CBD of stockjobbers and starched luxury malls - and be haunted by the thought of Antonio Samson's slum-dwelling illegitimate son Pepe. He features in Mass, the book that ends José's impassioned saga. In the novel's closing pages, Pepe confronts plutocrat Juan Puneta at his Makati mansion. After hearing Puneta say "I love exploiting the poor," Pepe...
...state of U.S. amateur tennis has gone from the sombrous to the ludicrous. Last week, for the fifth time in the last seven years, the U.S. Davis Cup team was beaten in preliminary interzone play, and was thereby eliminated from the challenge round against Australia. The previous losses, at least, were to Mexico, Italy (twice) and Spain-all of whom have solid credentials in international tennis. Last week's defeat came in Brazil, where sportswriters spent much of the week trying to explain to their readers just what the Davis Cup is. Only 3,000 fans (700 short...
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