Word: bleakfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Canton's White Cloud Airport, the visitors boarded the single plane on the field, a Russian-built Ilyushin-18 and flew off to Peking, attended by a khaki-clad stewardess. When the Americans arrived, Peking was still gripped by winter. The capital's houses appeared bleak brown and gray. Taken to the Hsinchiao Hotel and served a sumptuous tray of cold Chinese hors d'oeuvres, the inexperienced travelers assumed that was their meal. They dug in lustily. When they finished, however, nine other courses followed. "We had food you wouldn't believe," said Connie Sweeris. "Shark...
ENDGAME is Samuel Beckett at his best, conjuring his bleak, entropic universe out of the simple words and incessant pauses of characters struggling to stay alive while "something is taking its course." The problem with performing Beckett is to evoke this sense of futile (but constant) struggle while not losing the attention of an audience which has come, not to be plunged into a sense of futility, but to be entertained. The Mather House production of Endgame succeeds admirably in solving this problem...
...machinery remained silent yesterday as groups of women maintained their vigil in the cold, bleak warehouse setting of 888 Memorial Drive...
...hills and valleys. Still, as a peninsula city, San Francisco has nowhere to expand but up. It now bristles with skyscrapers, 21 of them built in the past five years. Gloomy citizens fear that the city will soon be "Manhattanized," that it will become a senseless jumble of bleak, man-made canyons...
...Federal Government cutback in funds for research-which resulted in bleak job opportunities for scientists-and the dissatisfaction among scientifically-minded students with the ivory-tower nature of most laboratory research have probably effected this change...