Word: bleak
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...showed me that literature could be fabricated out of the material of common life--in my case, common Chicago life. Bellow's work, from first to last, is the biography of a place, a map of his own consciousness as it evolves against the backdrop of the bleak industrial city, with its stockyards and sooty cast-iron buildings, shrouded in a midday gloom...
This is not necessarily as bleak a scenario, however, as the surface indicates...
There's a line in a Leonard Cohen song that has always stayed with me. It kept me going in a bleak moment in my life, when I thought, as we all sometimes do, that I couldn't see how good could come out of the dreck I had turned my life into. "Forget your perfect offering," Cohen advises. "There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Happy Easter...
Pressed to think of happy events, the main character in Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women can only come up with two: breaking her back and dying. Such despair and bleak humor characterizes the play, which plays through March 12 at the Loeb Experimental Theatre...
...terms of investor-protection legislation. "There are serious legal and financial issues that need to be resolved before Ukraine becomes an attractive place for foreign investors. Anyone who rushes into Ukraine without a lot of caution will end up getting burned." Some investors say that may be an unduly bleak view. Nine years ago, two Swedish businessmen, Johan Boden and Carl Sturen, invested about $5 million to start up a company in the farming town of Kakhovka aimed at making use of Ukraine's rich agriculture, including its tomatoes. Their firm, Chumak, named after Cossack salt merchants...