Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skies looked bleak for the Crimson. Harvard had its back against the wall. The final nail was being hammered into the coffin, Sportswriters were mixing their metaphors...
...Serling's classic series, but the early signs are encouraging. A segment in the premiere show features Melinda Dillon as a harried housewife who has the power to make her noisy world stop dead in its tracks. The tone of antic irony, however, leaves the viewer unprepared for a bleak and jarring denouement. Better realized is a future segment starring Comedian Robert Klein as a man who is plunged into a world where words have inexplicably changed their meaning. It is a nifty premise, directed in lucid, economical style by Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street). The episode...
...trucking derby. "The saddest kind of failure," says Tartikoff, "is when you aim low and miss. At least when you aim higher and miss, you can hide behind your target and say, 'It's the audience's fault.' " Fortunately for Tartikoff, one night in the dead of that bleak winter his baby daughter was crying, and Dad decided to keep Mom company. He switched on The Tonight Show, where Dr. William H. Cosby, Ed.D. (U. Mass.) was telling a story about middle- aged parents trying to instruct their kids in the facts of life. Next morning, Tartikoff phoned Cosby...
...hypnotic opening montage, for example. Five travelers on horseback--four men and a woman--are seen moving across the bleak landscape of southwestern England early in the 18th century. Fragmentary, half-perceived scenes reveal that most of the outward facts that can be learned about this little group are untrue. Their names, their social stations, their relationships to one another are shifting masks in a cryptic performance. They are surely bound together in a more ominous enterprise than they pretend, yet only one of them seems to know their destination. After a night at an inn, they ride on. Within...
...already the worst year in civil- aviation history, and there are still four months to go. The year has seen 15 air accidents worldwide and a death toll estimated at more than 1,500, surpassing the previous record, set in all of 1974, by at least 245 deaths. The bleak performance has ruffled even the most intrepid flyers, and now is raising disturbing issues about flight overcrowding and inattention to safety that could give airlines a bumpy ride in the months ahead. "The 'driver' is economics, not safety," Charles Miller, a former safety inspector for the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board...