Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprisingly, therefore, the political picture in the Midwest is not as bleak for Reagan as it might be. Moreover, farmers tend to be conservative politically and well inclined toward Reagan's politics. Even those who disagree with his policies tend to admire the President's personal style, and doubt that they will readily abandon him. "I don't blame Reaganomics or anything the President has done," says John Ed Tarkington, 36, who raises rice and soybeans on his 1,900-acre farm near Almyra. Ark. "We are at the mercy of the market." Indeed, many farmers still...
Obvious winners abound for example, "I Love a Man in a Uniform," an undisguised satire of militarism, and "We Live as We Dream Alone," a most bleak outlook on individuals within society "It Is Not Enough" is an animalistic attack on western sexual mores from both the man and woman's point of view. (The Gang, by the was recently solved its long-brewing bassist problem with the addition of the multi-talented Sara Lee hurray for coeducation in rock!) The biting "The History of the World" is a disguised condemnation of imperialism and the album's underdog success. "When...
...nowhere and knocking them down. Out of this basic and by no means original insight, Irving crafted a bestseller and something more. His hero, T.S. Garp, that wise and foolish, gentle and fierce writer-wrestler has become a sort of postmodernist Everyman, and his often deadly adventures on the bleak bat lefields of the contemporary war between the sexes have given the book an almost mythic coloration for many readers...
Ford's latest character, Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, isn't too good, but he's very true. Deckard is a product of his society, and it is a society with which we can readily identify. Director Ridley Scott presents a very bleak landscape for his depiction of Los Angeles in the 21 St century. The stark buildings, neon signs, and dismal rain paint the picture of a world without any connection to human emotion or morality. It is a world which could easily be ours...
...with the equally competitive classes of the past three or four Junes. How can America make room for all of them? Elizabeth Wiegard, a graduate of Fordham University in New York City, who is determinedly planning a Ph.D. in medieval studies, voices their anxieties: "I get to feeling pretty bleak sometimes. I have sort of an apocalyptic view of the world." In a Carnegie Foundation study of U.S. college students, Senior Fellow Arthur Levine reported "a sense among today's undergraduates that they are passengers on a sinking ship, a Titanic if you will...