Word: bleak
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...President whose vocabulary of international diplomacy includes words like "Kosovonians" and "strategery" and who still thinks that Foreign Affairs is a porno mag, the prospect of crafting a bold, new, intelligent foreign policy appears bleak. Yet despite President Bush's limited knowledge on such matters, his administration is poised to drastically alter the course of U.S. policy abroad...
...doing fine. And if they're hiring, then people are still getting out and spending money. Consumer spending accounts for two thirds of the U.S. economy, and it's a big factor in the intensity of any slowdown. So although consumers' expectations of the next six months are pretty bleak, as we saw in this week's consumer confidence index report of January, that pessimism isn't showing up with nearly as much force in their day-to-day activity. (Exhibit B: Surprisingly strong January car sales...
...Lewis. Just after Superbowl XXXIV, Lewis was charged in the stabbing deaths of two men after a brawl. He was mentioned in the same breath as former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth, who was involved in killing his pregnant girlfriend. Even after the legal matter was settled, things looked bleak...
Last summer, after a stint learning his new craft at the Sundance Filmmakers Lab, Mitchell headed to Toronto and directed while wearing Hedwig's heels. ("It was like torture," he says.) He opened up the material by adding flashbacks of Hedwig's bleak Berlin childhood, her rocky romantic history and even her botched sex-change operation (which explains the "angry inch"). "We kept the dramatic structure of the show," says Mitchell, who also kept its heady themes (borrowed from Plato and Ibsen), as well as Trask's irresistible score of country, rock and '70s-style ballads. And Hedwig still bears...
...something about the director being right there with the actors," explains Stephen Mirrione, Traffic's editor. "He gets what he needs and can move on." Soderbergh also gave each story a distinct look in order to keep the audience oriented. He shot the Cincinnati and Washington footage in a bleak and bluish color; rendered Mexico grainy, baking in blinding light; and slightly overexposed the San Diego scenes to make the colors soft and blossoming. "All this rot is going on underneath this very pristine surface," explains the director. "It's a nice contrast...