Word: bleak
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...slums of 13 Brazilian states through his Committee for the Democratization of Information Technology (CDI). Most of the 32,000 young people who have completed classes either have jobs or are starting their own businesses. Without Baggio's inspired idea, most of them would have faced a bleak life. On the heels of his enormous success, Baggio is aiming to start something of a digital nation. This year he plans to connect all his computer schools on the Internet. "Many times a youth in one favela never visits another one even in the same state," he says. "The Internet...
...Believing that he had exhausted his ideas for original material with Exotica, Egoyan decided it was time to turn to the literary world. Egoyan eventually chose Russell Banks's The Sweet Hereafter, a relentlessly bleak story about the aftermath of a tragedy in which fourteen children are killed in a school bus accident. The result was an infinitely subtle and heartbreaking film that found its way onto over 200 top ten lists...
...Hollow Lands, having its premiere at the South Coast Repertory of Costa Mesa, Calif., is not your garden-variety revisionist history. Bleak and Brechtian in style, it has no overt political message; no easy, retroactive moralizing about the sins of our ancestors. Achieving the nation's "Manifest Destiny," it implies, was not a great quest or a great crime but a kind of communal neurosis, a manic need to chart the uncharted--an endeavor people in the play are constantly, fuzzily describing as "freedom." Yet those great white spaces of terra incognita on the map are being filled in faster...
...season has been disastrous thus far, as the squad has been unable to maintain consistent play. Dartmouth now stands six games under .500 overall and winless in four league games. And with the tougher games of the season still looming--two games apiece versus Penn and Princeton--things look bleak in New Hampshire...