Word: bleak
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...University releases an internal investigation of the worldwide college apparel manufacturing industry, finding conditions bleak for workers...
...lacking in the overt didacticism that has scored many of Loach's later films, not always to their advantage. Its ending will also remind viewers of Truffaut's The 400 Blows--a lonely lad standing on an empty shore, contemplating a young life gone wrong, a future full of bleak ambiguity. But that obvious reference somehow enhances Sweet Sixteen, unselfconsciously connecting it to an honorable and engaging modern screen tradition. Written by Paul Laverty without a wasted or imprecise word, it refuses to sentimentalize Liam or explain him sociologically. It just lets him live--sometimes jauntily, sometimes tormentedly, but always...
Verba says he prefers to read novels in his spare time, mixing contemporary fiction with classics. He went through a phase where he would devote each summer to reading a thick Charles Dickens novel like Bleak House...
There is often a bleak beauty to Marooned in Iraq's landscapes. But pictorialism aside, it is a unique experience--abrupt, jagged, almost childlike in its ever shifting tones. Driven equally by wayward and bestartling incidents that blow up and blow away, and by an old man's abiding passion, it's a film that is exotic in its rhythms yet utterly comprehensible in its humanity. You'll have to seek it out in its limited release, but no current movie is more worth the effort. --By Richard Schickel
...jobless, middle-aged salaryman. Suicides are on the rise among young men and women and with the shift in demographics comes a new style of self destruction. Youth are using a bizarre Internet aberration?the suicide site?to hook up with desperate soulmates willing to share their bleak journey. In February, two women and a man, all in their 20s, met on a suicide site and killed themselves in a Saitama apartment. Since then there have been seven similar incidents and 14 deaths...