Word: bleak
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...produce prices”—by limiting fresh fruit options and vegetables like spinach, brussel sprouts and summer squash, for example—“as per usual.” However, unexpected food price increases have made this year’s annual slump particularly bleak. According to Martin Breslin, Director for Culinary Operations, the price of chicken increased 11 percent, flour 18 percent, and milk a prohibitive 30 percent during the winter menu cycle alone. This inflation—recently the source of countless Economist and New York Times articles—is the symptom...
...Vegas suburbanites, before he disappears into the oblivion of the Nevada desert. There is clear fixation with recordings: a stripper becomes comfortable with her job by imagining herself in a movie; her perpetually filthy but charismatic boyfriend schemes to break into the pornography industry; a father escapes his bleak marital situation by losing himself in pornographic films. Bock meditates on how the filmed lose their power as their private moments are recorded, edited, marketed, and removed from their control. But he also examines how the viewer is affected by film: Newell’s parents can endlessly watch footage...
...thirty years is seamlessly interwoven with eerie shots of Austin’s underground aquifer and a haunting voice-over reading Wendell Berry’s poem “Santa Clara Valley.” Shots contrasting the hills of thirty or even fifteen years ago with the bleak suburbs of today provide a visual counterpart to the sprawl outlined in maps and diagrams throughout the film.But Dunn’s real coup is the interviews, in which a variety of characters speak with disarming candor. Ann Richards, former governor of Texas, is shown in one of the last...
...service, and it's easy to see why Harry might prefer his hard army billet to the comforts of a palace bed. Dressed in camouflage, his pale skin burned as ruddy as his hair, the prince for the first time in his life was almost invisible, blending into the bleak desert landscape with its rich palette of colors - any shade, as long as it's dusty red. To the watching enemy - he calls them "Terry Taliban" - he was indistinguishable from the rest of the troops...
...Amherst this past weekend. “I think the game went really well,” junior Kaitlin Martin said. “We came out really hard because we knew that UMass was a team we could not take lightly.” The game started off bleak for Harvard as the Minutewomen got on the scoreboard first. UMass scored in the 39th second of play. This would be the first and last time UMass had a lead in the competition. The Crimson answered quickly three minutes later. Off of a free position, freshman Jessica Halpern...