Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grand enough to have made John Ford jealous, and his impressionistic multiexposure of nighttime Manhattan should be accompanied by Rhapsody in Blue. More important, the author-photographer knows his territory well enough to make a haunting composition out of a simple line of telephone poles arcing across a bleak valley. In America might be this year's most oblique and intriguing Bicentennial book...
Scientists have long wondered how the ancient Nazcas were able to draw the giant designs and figures that stretch for miles across Peru's bleak Nazca plains. They have been particularly fascinated by the fact that although there are no nearby mountains, the designs are recognizable only from a high elevation...
Girl: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous, lonely emptiness of existence--nothingness--the predicament of man, forced to live in a barren, godless eternity, like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void--with nothing but waste, horror, and degradation--forming a useless, bleak straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos...
...many ways, New York City's long-term prospects remain bleak. More austerity lies ahead for a city whose services and safety have been declining alarmingly for the past few years. Schools and libraries, parks and tennis courts, hospitals and day care centers will be more crowded and less well maintained. Last week the city halted 46 construction projects...
...Kennedy Memorial Library and Museum. Finally, after family members had left the room twice to caucus, the entire board made its decision: the $14 million complex would be built not at Harvard - Kennedy's alma mater and his own choice for the library site - but instead, on the bleak new Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts...