Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearby Parachute, where the population had quadrupled, to 1,200, in the past year, the outlook was also bleak. Jack Ross, 42, owner of the Valley Cafe, looked over his half-empty lunch counter and grumbled, "We're going to go out of business. That's all there is to it. We won't be able to pay the electric bill after this week." In a case of remarkably unlucky timing, the new Parachute Plaza Motel opened its doors last week. The only guests were a few reporters covering the Colony closing. Town officials...
...roll, however, is the ability to fuse opposites. What happened between The Charlie Daniels Band and Dan Daley and his demo tape is a hit song called Still in Saigon, featured on Daniels' new album, Windows, already 24 on the singles charts and climbing fast. At this bleak and uncertain moment for rock 'n' roll, Still in Saigon is not only the best single of the year so far; it would be a standout in the most bountiful of times...
...carrying a note about windswept nuclear fallout. In Belle Glade, Fla. (pop. 18,000), as in many communities, local churches sponsored a showing of The Last Epidemic, a film distributed by Physicians for Social Responsibility about nuclear war's medical horrors. Doctors from several hospitals described the same bleak scenario at a rally in Philadelphia...
...slumping on markets everywhere, however, the price of crude has dropped from $40 per bbl. to $28 per bbl. on the unregulated spot market. As a result, the economic outlook for the 90 million inhabitants of Nigeria, black Africa's wealthiest and most populous nation, has suddenly turned bleak...
Such views cry out for refutation in the novel. But after Hitler's Sturm und Drang, his captors and critics remain mute. In effect, Steiner allows A.H. the last word, and ends on a note of bleak ambiguity: the noisy arrival of the first helicopters from the waiting world beyond the jungle. Portage largely avoids both the satisfactions of the traditional novel and the horrifying details of Holocaust literature. Instead, Steiner has taken as his model the political imaginings of an Orwell or Koestler, and although he has not reached their challenging heights, he has produced a philosophic fantasy...