Word: bleakness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hiller's contributions to the proceedings are as witty as the toys he builds for True, and the denouement of the whole tale is gratifying. But it is constant, often startling, shifts in the film's emotional tone, the economy of its writing and its lively movement through the - bleak London landscape that lend it true distinction...
...their earlier work, Director Wenders (Paris, Texas) and Novelist Peter Handke (The Left-Handed Woman) have charted some pretty bleak terrain. Here, though, they boldly go where just about everyone has gone before, into the realm of romantic fantasy. You could say this film is It's a Wonderful Life as told by an angel tired of earning his wings. But it's lots else. It's a fable about the search to reconcile knowing with feeling, purity with experience. It's the story of any man shackled by the expectation of perfection and aching to caress the soft curves...
...that week, walking through Tercentenary Theater, I saw a good friend of mine who lived next to me last year. He is an Orioles fan, but he wasn't looking particularly bleak even though Baltimore had lost its 20th in a row the previous...
...Jackson had of fighting Dukakis to a draw -- an outcome that would have produced chaos at the Democratic Convention in Atlanta. Though Jackson, after a period of uncertain silence, insisted he could still win the nomination, Campaign Manager Gerald Austin conceded that his patron's prospects had turned "pretty bleak." Even before the votes were counted, Jackson was retreating to claims of symbolic victory; then a few of his advisers talked publicly about seeking the vice-presidential nomination...
Only when Sarah rejects the deception in all things, when she has finally accepted her loneliness, is her rebellion complete. Updike's final proposition for women, then, is a bleak...