Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Speaking softly to a crowd which alternately broke into laughter, appluase and scattered hissing, Hite described her conclusions on male sexuality, culled from 7329 questionnaires, as "somewhat bleak at first sight...
...there is bleak pessimism these days in Western Europe when officials talk about unemployment. "What we are up against in all industrial societies is a continuous process of change," a top E.C. official in Brussels explains. "But Europe doesn't have the dynamism of the U.S., nor whatever it is the Japanese have. We have a lovely culture, and we want to keep it, but we have to start thinking about change." -By Henry Muller. Reported by William Blaylock/Paris and Lawrence Malkin/Brussels, with other bureaus...
Things began to look even more bleak after the next two singles matches. Kristen Mertz dropped a 6-1, 6-0 decision to Sharon Hurrell, and freshman Nina VanDyke lost to Jamie Beere...
...shrugging or exacting fatal revenge, she spins three sprightly variations on the theme. Nicholas' sturdiest friend and Kate's most dastardly seducer are both played by the same actor: Bob Peck has a biathlon field day exhibiting the far poles of man's temperaments. Even John Woodvine, a bleak house of malevolence as old Ralph Nickleby, gets to sing as the star of a comic opera skit...
...house we remember. Sometimes it stands a little too near the freeway, in a raw mat of sodded lawn-a poignant dry-green whiffle of grass with a single sapling in it that gives no more shade than a swizzle stick. The house has the frank, bleak starkness of the cut-rate. Its interiors are minimalist, and grimly candid about it. No woodwork, no extras, no little frills of gentility any more. No front hall. One bathroom, with the cheapest fixtures, no bathtub...