Word: bleak
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Durang’s play is in many ways a bleak statement on the disappointments of life and the inability to communicate and introduces two homosexual characters to update William’s vision of the American family and society. Still this production focused more on slapstick comic delivery than an exploration of these more serious themes...
Despite the bleak economic signals, the never-say-die ethos that propelled some job seekers to success in the first place refuses to let them give up. During her year of unemployment, Zoe Quan has plumbed her network of contacts, built over 17 years in telecommunications, to no avail. Her degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago have not bailed her out, nor has her minority status. "Diversity in hiring has fallen away as a priority," she notes. Quan, single and in her 40s, has only a few months' worth of living expenses left in her nest...
...idea for his latest film, The Magdalene Sisters, from a documentary he happened upon while channel surfing. If ever creative inspiration isn't so close at hand, writer-director Peter Mullan can look to his own bleak Glaswegian upbringing. The visuals would certainly be striking. Mullan's family led an outwardly prosperous life in a large pillared house that his mother instructed him and his seven siblings to tell people was owned, not rented. The lie fostered an illusion of affluence, but behind the façade, says Mullan, "we didn't even have any furniture. We were dirt poor...
...customers, and some 850 civilians at the base lost their jobs. Then came Ryanair. The airline looked at the base in 1999 and decided it was perfectly positioned to provide an international hub for its central European operations. The locals were thrilled. "When the Americans left the future looked bleak," says Carsten Koppke, mayor of the district of Kirchberg, which includes Hahn. "Now I'm looking ahead very optimistically...
...away as Istanbul and Glasgow. That ended with the Bosnian war, when the Neretva River became a front line between the town's Croat and Muslim residents. Some tried to protect their bridge by swaddling it in old blankets and rubber tires. But the shelling continued, and one bleak November morning in 1993 the arch finally gave way, disappearing beneath the green waters below. "We all cried," says Cisic. Now he and fellow Mostar residents, with funding from the international community, have begun the task of bringing it back. Residents gathered last month to watch craftsmen shape the first stone...