Word: bleak
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...herself again last night.” This exchange, coming late in the first half of director Krystian Lupa’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play “Three Sisters,” exemplifies the tone of the work. The play itself is unremittingly bleak, and Lupa’s direction only amplifies the work’s sense of desperation—which both overtly and subtly pervades each scene—as well as the disconnectedness between characters, as each is too absorbed in their personal misery to worry about others?...
...overambitious failures, until you look further. The monumental Portrait of a Woman (1895) is one of several Rousseaus bought by Picasso. It might seem a clumsy copy of a commercial photograph, until you notice the woman's hand holding an upturned, withered branch, and beyond the balcony railings a bleak treeless landscape bisected by an empty road. His so-called portrait landscapes, says Morris, produced hybrids "full of riddles." That is exactly what impressed Rousseau's avant-garde friends and the later Surrealists: they appreciated his ability to combine images to unsettling effect. The fashionable lady in Promenade...
...Believe me, there are aspects of the organization I’d change in a heartbeat, late night hours that I’d love to reclaim. But even when I escape the building at 4 a.m., cursing “bloody Crimson” on the bleak walk home, it only takes some recovered slumber for me to remember how astounding this place...
...thankless role, Mulroney does his same ordinary guy schtick played out in “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and “The Wedding Date.” His relationship with Meredith is a bleak picture of yuppie romance. Mulroney’s allegedly playful smirk and his unfortunate habit of talking out of one side of his mouth gets old quickly...
...future for peer-to-peer file sharing services is, lately, looking a bit bleak. The page for StreamCast Networks’ Morpheus has a disclaimer about copyright infringement at the bottom that has grown to about three times its former length over the past two months. LimeWire now requires users to agree that they “will not use LimeWire…for copyright infringement” before they can download the software. The page for i2hub, which closed down last week under pressure from the recording industry, has been replaced with a simple memorial reading...