Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going much more difficult. As they emerged over land from the Gulf of Oman, flying without lights in the moonlit night, two of the choppers ran into a fierce desert sandstorm. Both developed crippling problems. One could not stay aloft because of hydraulic troubles and settled down in the bleak desert. Another helicopter crew found the disabled craft, picked up its occupants and completed the five-hour, 500 nautical mile flight to the landing strip. The second laboring chopper discovered a faulty gyro and turned back to the Nimitz, which was standing offshore. Finally, six of the eight...
However, Schlondorff fails to give a similar sense of irony to a Beckettian sequence with an eel fisherman on a stark beach. While Oskar keeps a cold, dark view on life, the film changes tone: now it is bleak and blue, now it is warm and red. Does Schlondorff misunderstand his little hero or has he simply made only token efforts at linking each sequence to the whole? He manages to reduce the most profound chapter of Grass' novel, a discussion about art and life between a midget magician and a soliderly artist to a frolicking picnic atop a cement...
...change in the eye of the viewer belongs to Ira Wohl, a gifted documentary film maker who is also Philly's cousin. His approach during three years of filming was quite unlike the disdainful stare of cinéma verité, although much of what he recorded is bleak. The tone of the film is passionate advocacy, and its real subject is the dignity of love in a family hard-pressed by age and illness. Pearl, Philly's mother, is in her late 70s, and Max, his father, is three years older and ailing. They have sheltered Philly...
Starting last July, Boeing and General Dynamics each made ten test flights. Most were held over the bleak wastelands of the Utah Test and Training Range, near Dugway, Utah. The missiles were programmed to sprint at 500 m.p.h. round and round an aerial race course 100 miles long by 30 miles wide. In later tests some cruises were dropped from B-52s 60 miles out into the Pacific and programmed to fly back over California and Nevada to Utah. Air Force F-4 Phantom chase planes closely followed to observe and take over the missiles by radio control if anything...
...time or energy. Worse, Sellers found the principal location, the Biltmore mansion in Asheville, N.C., cold and depressing in the winter. As usual, he found it impossible to leave his role on the set and walked around inside Chance's deadly placid character all the time, offering responses as bleak as the weather to everyone. Says he now: "It was hell for my wife...