Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York. That could be a sign of things to come, or may simply reflect the loyalty of Woody's fans. Even Paramount, which has made the most money from escape flicks this summer, is pinning its fall hopes on Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, a bleak story about migrant farm workers in Texas...
...manage to see Brown's Mill as a stranger sees it-but not for long. For MacArthur, in this cavernous tomb to New England's vanished woolen industry lie the makings of a Utopian community, or at least a working model of the 1980s. Behind the bleak, randomly broken windows he imagines 92,000 sq. ft. of space filled by maybe 60 different cottage industries, all running off the mill's hydroelectric power. An ad listed under business opportunities in the Maine Times reads in part: "Abandon ulcers, all ye who enter here ... serene, supportive, imaginative...
Gulag III should prove less formidable than its predecessors. The bleak panorama of I (the prison system) and II (the labor camps) opens on to more heartening vistas of resistance and rebellion in III. The book is principally an enthralling account of the first postwar escapes and strikes in the camps that exploded into full-scale mutinies after Stalin's death. That heroic era coincided with Solzhenitsyn's own eight-year term, and its heady air still exhilarates him. The pride and zest with which he describes the convicts' resistance contrast sharply with the fury he expended...
...odds there looked bleak for Carter. Originally, by the Administration's count, Chairman Sparkman had been the only one of the 16 committee members who actually supported the package. Carter's advisers then looked hard for ways to rally more support...
Schorer was born in a provincial Midwestern town where he grew up in the gloomy atmosphere of a tightly-knit German immigrant community. Memories of grisly scenes such as a hanging, or even the dying of his injured dog provide a bleak background for the short stories. Without any annoying psychoanalysis Schorer portrays his raging father and his suicidal mother. Even though his history provides him plentiful opportunities for melodrama, the adult Schorer distances himself as much as possible from his boyhood emotions. He brusquely emphasizes the disadvantaged perspective of a child whose ignorance left the most important questions about...