Word: bleak
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...Lipovsky, American singer-actor Theodore Bikel and Bosnia and Herzegovina's Mostar Sinfonietta on June 27. Szeroka Street's riotous end-of-festival party, with surprise acts playing to an international crowd, starts on July 2 and carries on into the next morning. Kazimierz's past may have been bleak, but the return of its vibrant Jewish culture makes for a bright future...
...Braddock, who may be the most unlikely heavyweight champion in history. When we meet Braddock (Russell Crowe), he's a promising pug, who is quickly reduced to has-been status by injuries and the Depression. Howard realizes the period with perfect authenticity: the biting chill, the hungry faces, the bleak desperation...
...famous actress falls silent, unable to speak of and to the world's brutalities and banalities. Her nurse fills the emptiness with chipper chatter, eventually talking herself into her patient's tragic view. Bergman has never been more bleak, austere, enigmatic or hypnotic...
...soared 96%, to 184,000; in 2004 the magazine enjoyed its best year ever, reversing years of losses to turn a profit of $251,000. If it's true that the fortunes of the Nation are inversely proportional to those of the nation, then things must be pretty bleak for the rest...
...director currently working on campus. Over the past years, his work has taken on its own contours and has been marked by signature elements that are regularly deployed: dominant female villains, forays into violence and physical comedy, and the deployment of actors into elaborate, atmospheric sets that enhance the bleak spaces that separate them emotionally. Though some of his tropes can be grating—the alternations between loud yelling, electronica, and animalistic sexuality has grown somewhat predictable—we have all witnessed in Donahue’s work the genesis of a style, and the preliminary efforts...