Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets do not appreciate how seriously the U.S. takes human rights, and think they need to hear the American position directly from Reagan. With the partial exception of INF, a mere listing of the positions of the two sides on the agenda's main items could lead to bleak predictions for success. But the great imponderable is the extent to which the two leaders, talking face to face, can find the compromises that have so far eluded their bargainers. The conference arrangements are being drawn to maximize the chance that they can. Though Reagan and Gorbachev are not giving themselves...
...SOVIET-AMERICAN relations are once again back on track. "A bleak logjam suddenly broken, Soviet-American relations now flow with promise," The New York Times editorialized. Salvation is now at hand, if only we believe...
...West were happy that the outlook was bleak for a superpower summit after the Soviets detained and imprisoned American journalist Nicholas S. Daniloff '56. That much is obvious. What isn't so clear--but probably no less true--is that that's what the Soviets were hoping for from the start...
...film is more than a bit bleak. As they enter the medieval abbey, William and Adso are first approached by an aged, Peter Lorre-type monk (William Hickey), who looks at Adso with his half-blind, lustful eyes and tells him that there is something "diabolical, even feminine" about the monastery. Even the gargoyles are creepy, with skull images where stalagmites once were...
Vagabond is powerful primarily because of its atmosphere--the way it turns bleak, open stretches of landscape into symbols of freedom, and thus manages to turn a young girl's random travels into a symbolic human odyssey. Until the end, you feel the movie is as much about the people she's met as about Mona herself, with a little about humanity in general thrown in. Mona's death scene at the end of the film completely destroys the subtle mood it has worked so hard to create, but regardless of the disappointing end, the fascinated detachment with which...