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...that coral reefs make headlines, so it was a surprise last week when they were in the news three times. Although most of the reports, published in the journal Science, were discouraging, there was at least some hope that the future of these fragile formations might not be as bleak as environmentalists fear...
...there is this paradox about it: it's one of our most reliable sources of laughter, the subject of, just last year, some of our most interesting and weirdly entertaining movies. Punch-Drunk Love, Adaptation and About Schmidt are all bleak comedies about emotionally stunned or stunted people trying, in their herky-jerky ways, to avoid a completely comatose condition...
...gate. Despite two years under U.S. tutelage, Afghanistan remains a failed state. It's not costing the U.S. much in terms of lives and treasure (the Administration even forgot to put money for Afghanistan into the foreign aid budget it submitted in February). But its prospects are looking rather bleak...
...arranged marriage, Songlian (Gong Li) enters the residential compound of a wealthy Chinese man. She becomes caught amidst the scheming of his other wives, who live in separate houses and vie constantly for their husband’s attention. The exquisite film, directed by Zhang Yimou (Hero), offers a bleak view of upper-class family life in 1920s China. Raise the Red Lantern screens Thursday, August...
...limbless trees have more presence than the two small humans who scuttle across the canvas. Its wide angle and transformation of horror into almost-beauty conveys emotional impact in a way no photograph can. In 1921 Nash was diagnosed with "war strain" and retreated to the Kent coast, near bleak Romney Marsh. He took refuge in geometry, applying a ruler to nature, and seeking out the regularity of fences, planks, horizons. The Shore (1923) shows the seawall at Dymchurch, which holds the water - in his imagination "cold and cruel" - back from the marsh. A stark composition of gray, blue, gold...