Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Union's electronic pulse is barely perceptible. The company said last week that it lost $58.4 million in 1984 on sales of $1.1 billion. Coming on top of a $59 million deficit in 1983, the news fanned speculation that Western Union may be unable to survive. "Its future is bleak," says Michael Kennedy, a telecommunications analyst for the Gartner Group research firm. "This is a company on the verge of bankruptcy...
MARRIED. Martin Scorsese, 42, film director with a bleak, often obsessive vision (Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy); and Barbara DeFina, 38, film production worker whom he met in 1980 on the set of Raging Bull and who worked with him on his forthcoming film After Hours; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in New York City...
Stranger than Paradise feels gritty and honest. Jarmusch's black and white landscapes are bleak, almost neutral: the Florida beach looks like Ohio without snow. As Eddie mumbles. "It's funny. You come to someplace new and everything looks the same." All of Jarmusch's spaces are defined: landscapes are linear and static, interiors bordered by walls and corners (compared to Wenders' romantic and rambling Americana deserts). This "new style of American filmmaking" is so ironic it makes your teeth hurt, but it's also witty and incisive. Paradise is a strange portrait of young Americans and new immigrants, looking...
Lance Morrow's earliest memory is of loss: "I look for my father, but cannot move . . . I stand in the middle of an open space, immobile, under a dark gray sky." Some four decades have passed since that bleak moment. Morrow, a TIME senior writer, is himself a parent, but he remains a Daedalus figure, trying to come to terms with the past...
...Sudan's other refugees, which include some 116,000 Chadians, 250,000 Ugandans and 5,000 Zairians, the outlook is bleak. Once regarded as the potential breadbasket of the Arab world, Sudan has in four years gone from being an exporter to an importer of its sorghum, a grainlike staple crop. Through a combination of bad weather and overgrazing of arable land, production fell from 3.4 million tons in 1981 to 1.3 million tons last year. The result has been bread shortages throughout the country, even in the capital of Khartoum, and the frequent unavailability of supplies for the refugee...