Word: bleakfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort to rehabilitate; they are simply zoos for human animals that society wants out of the way. As a result, criminals are thrown into precisely the environment guaranteed to ensure they will emerge brutalized, more criminally expert and less fit to live lawfully than when they entered. A bleak spirit of damnation hides criminals behind walls, cancels their identities, meanwhile anticipating some moral regeneration and repentance...
...fanfare of advertising promising, as CBS put it, "quality programming for the young." Unfortunately, few of the shows live up to that billing. Though all three networks are preparing occasional specials for other time slots, Saturday morning-the most concentrated stretch of children's television-remains a particularly bleak wasteland, where flashes of wit or originality are rarely seen...
Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is a teen-age fumbler who takes his first job as an attendant at a public bath and swimming pool located in the far reaches of some bleak London suburb. He is engulfed by sexual fantasies but terrified when any of his female customers attempt to initiate him. Little wonder. Women for him are a mystery and a threat. They either overwhelm him with bloated lust (like one patron who smothers him in a bone-crushing embrace while passionately discussing football) or exploit him, like Susan (Jane Asher), another attendant at the baths, whose simultaneous taunting...
...airline industry-are all cutting back on expenditures for new equipment. Aftertax profits in the industry were a paltry 2% last year as compared to 4% for manufacturing companies as a whole, and Wall Street analysts say that the aerospace profit outlook for 1971 is just as bleak...
...since the tragic fire that killed three astronauts on the launch pad in 1967 has NASA's morale been so low or its future so bleak. The signs are all too apparent: shops are shuttered in Florida's once-booming Brevard County, the home of Cape Kennedy. Thousands of engineers and technicians are out of work in Southern California and other aerospace centers. Last week, even as Apollo 15 streaked to the moon, Congress sent the White House a compromise $3.27 billion NASA appropriations bill-$1.9 billion below the allocations of the space agency's heyday...