Word: bleakly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: A bleak film offers a discomfiting vision of family values...
...well as she might, and her variation on the Martin Guerre (or Sommersby) theme is predictable. But as she showed in last year's Europa, Europa, she also has a way of administering jolts from the blue that usefully subvert our narrative and moral expectations. The value of this bleak film, which says that the family, like any other institution, requires agreed-upon fictions to sustain itself, derives from that talent...
...infinitum. There are few surprises in Kennedy's universe -- no new ideologies galvanizing the masses of the Third World; no medical breakthroughs to forestall the graying of the developed world; no method to recycle wealth from North to South. Global population pressures represent the strongest aspect of Kennedy's bleak portrait of life in the next century. Small wonder that he begins with a tip of the hat to Thomas Malthus' dire -- but ultimately incorrect -- late 18th century prediction of worldwide starvation. "The world's population was less than a billion when Malthus first wrote his Essay ((on Population))," Kennedy...
...woman man today. In fact his happy marriage to the stunning Iman has inspired much of the material on his upcoming solo album, his first in six years. Just recorded, Bowie says it "will examine the twists and turns of companionship." He adds, "All my albums start out bleak and veer toward the depressing. This one will let the sun shine through." Sunshine, yes, and a little sax playing from Major...
...world's pigeons divvy up their assignments? Are the best and the brightest in the aviary awarded a nesting place in Piazza San Marco, while the dullards are consigned to bleak window ledges in Detroit...