Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Waugh's narrative prose in addition to his dialogue. "We went for the book whole," says Producer Derek Granger. "We were true to its faults as well as its virtues, but the faults-the over luxuriance, for instance-are also rather appealing. Waugh wrote it during a very bleak period of World War II, and he looked back to his days in Oxford as golden, halcyon." The most expensive TV production ever to come from Britain (about $9.9 million), Brideshead Revisited has a cast that includes John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Mona Washbourne, Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews...
...follows the pair to their eventual downfall when Arthur becomes suspect in a murder. If it weren't for a surprisingly original gimmick, the movie might have just been another lowlife melodrama in the style of The Postman Always Rings Twice. But as the two lovers travel through the bleak Chicago landscape, they occasionally burst into mimicries of the kind of elaborate Busby Berkeley song-and-dance numbers Hollywood so admired during the depression. When Arthur fails to get a loan at the bank, for instance, hundreds of smiling girls in black-and-white fur bunnysuits suddenly appear, highstepping wildly...
...future looks bleak for the News. current rumor has it that it would cost the Tribune company $85 million to close down the paper and pay off its employees, while it would take $60 million to renovate the product for the long haul. But those numbers distort the picture. The News is written for part of New York that, while still huge by almost any standard, is shrinking; and American business does not stay in the games when the prizes keep getting smaller. Sooner or later, and probably earlier than most expect, the Daily News will join the Brooklyn Dodgers...
...argument has problems. In the way Trow constructs it, it admits no middle ground. Everything appears contaminated and bleak, and Trow makes no allowance for anything redeeming in American culture. In the concept of consensus, Trow has hit on one of the key underpinnings of the culture. But he has not hit on everything, and his presentation--in the form of a series of block notes ranging in length from epigrams to miniature essays strung together into the longer essay--suffers from being overly polemical...
...millions of Americans it will be a bleak Christmas and a grim New Year, and not until many months into 1982 will people begin to see the first glimmerings of the supply-side economic prosperity that Ronald Reagan promised would be the hallmark of his Administration. Such was the sobering conclusion of TIME'S Board of Economists last week as it met in New York to survey the year now ending and the economic outlook for the one soon to begin...