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...neglected. When, for instance, has a playgoer been dazzled and dominated by a set rather than merely giving it the perfunctory opening-curtain applause? Edward Corey's set for Dracula at Manhattan's Martin Beck Theater is an eye-blinker. Broody, vaulting, magisterial, colored in shades of bleakest gray, it is a psychic tomb out of Edgar Allan Poe's haunted imagination. In perfect aesthetic juxtaposition, Gorey's costumes are funereal black, with ruby splashes in a proffered drink or a crimsoned pendant to accent the theme of Dracula's blood lust...
...best the figures only show the situation worsening at a slower pace. Last year, about 21 serious crimes were committed every minute; a violent crime like rape or assault, every 31 seconds. The FBI clocked one murder every 26 minutes. The bleakest news in the report: only a fifth of last year's 11.3 million serious crimes resulted in arrest...
...Post Office Department in 1971, has had money problems ever since it was created. Today, the woes of the service have reached such alarming proportions that postal officials in Washington are privately discussing the possibility of an outright financial collapse in a year and a half. One of the bleakest assessments yet of the service's future is contained in a speech this week by Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar before the Economic Club of Detroit. Unless drastic changes are made in the way that Americans send and receive their mail, Bailar warned, "we are heading for potential disaster...
...mask of success is a deception because behind it is hidden a very terrible face." At his bleakest moments, he swears that had he known where acting would lead him, he would have become an engineer. "Nonsense," says Lina Wertmuller. "Giancarlo was born to be an actor. He was born to work at my side. And I was born to work at his. Our fates are sealed...
President Ford submitted to Congress yesterday the bleakest State of the Union message in decades, urging massive tax cuts, a red-ink budget and higher fuel costs to overcome recession and energy shortages...