Word: bleak
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...debut of Flying Circus through Life of Brian 10 years later - the Pythons were lauded as doing for comedy in the '70s what the Beatles did for pop music in the '60s. They extended Britain's primacy of Cool through a decade that, in other respects, was pretty bleak. Not that a Silly Walk through Harrod's could lessen the likelihood of an IRA bomb, or a thought of the Parrot sketch could warm a body through a winter rendered heatless by the oil embargo. But the Pythons lightened the load. Whatever the real-life ordeal, their dose of surreal...
...died when coming home from the Army for Christmas; the car he'd hitched a ride in was hit by a truck. The family had few resources, so for a dozen years, from age seven, Eric was raised at the Royal Orphanage in Wolverhampton, an institution he describes as "bleakly Victorian." The school was bleak and chilly. "I was cold until I was nineteen," Idle recalled, conjuring up the deprivations George Orwell wrote in an essay-memoir of his own educational incarceration, "Such, Such Were the Joys...
...comes to America's health disparities. Local differences in things like the food people eat and the health care they receive appear to be more important than income in determining how long they live, according to a new study of mortality in the U.S. Some of the news is bleak: the worst-off Americans have a life span in line with that of people who live in Third World countries. The biggest surprise, says the report's author, Dr. Christopher Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health, is that life-span discrepancies show up most in young and middle...
...what the World Health Organization calls the "worldwide epidemic" of obesity. Clearly, it isn't just the more sensationalist elements of the media but a host of research centers and health bodies that have categorized the trend toward increasing body mass in humans as an impending disaster. The bleak diagnosis is that as a species we're carrying too much lard, exposing every system of the body to heightened risk of disease. Amid constant warnings about soaring rates of diabetes and links between fat and heart attack, stroke, dementia, cancer, arthritis and a myriad of other conditions, a view...
What it's done is make it more complicated. We are still not addressing the root causes. The Lebanese war dramatically opened all eyes to the fact that if we don't solve the Palestinian issue, the future looks pretty bleak for the Middle East. Unless we solve the core problems, terrorism in its strength will always be with...