Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson scores were nothing short of astronomical as no one broke 80. Gene Purdy was the lone bright spot in an otherwise bleak...
...Gandhi was in this bleak corner of impoverished Uttar Pradesh state for a padayatra, the journey on foot made famous 25 years ago by Vinobha Bhave, who for years walked the length and breadth of India asking people to give up one-tenth of their land to the landless. A padayatra has become the customary way for leaders to make contact with their people. In 1959 Mrs. Gandhi walked for four days through her father Jawaharlal Nehru's Allahabad constituency. This year Indira, 58, reduced her padayatra to a mile-long, 50-min. walk through the single village...
That prospect may be too bleak. For one thing, a possible, if intangible alternative to education and genetic engineering may lie in spiritual renewal. For another, it may be necessary to decide that human beings are simply not going to be "thoroughly improved," but that we must work with them as they...
...Bleak Dreams. Finally she crumbles. Like a coy adolescent, she tells Tomas she will sleep with him - but just sleep. She asks for pills to ensure her rest, but she cannot close her eyes. She starts talking to Tomas in bed about an incident where she was set upon by two men and almost raped. She found, to her shame, that she wanted to be violated, but her body would not permit it. She laughs, as if to dismiss this confession - and all it implies - then, out of control, starts to cry, then laugh again, then gasp through both...
American films in the late 40s and early 50s were dominated by a style called film noir, as the optimistic excitement of wartime Hollywood gave way to a bleak mood of disillusionment and introspection. Directors turned away from the mythology of the American Dream to examine the darker sides of the American psyche: corruption, jealousy, greed, obsessive hate, and murder became crucial themes. Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity, showing in the Orson Welles's film noir festival is in many ways a perfect example of the genre. Written by Raymond Chandler, it stars Barbara Stanwyck as the sexy but neglected...