Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have now officially cast their lot with the strikers, announcing that they will divert their contributions from church headquarters to a new mission board and the seminary in exile. A conciliation board is still at work trying to mend the tattered situation, but the prospects for restoring unity are bleak...
...although availability looks better in the future, financing still looks bleak. Like the battle for married student housing in the forties and the fifties--which was not won until colleges recognized that students marry--the day care problem will not be resolved until college administrators recognize that many also have families...
...searing accuracy and bitter realism of his works, there is yet a truth which transcends the bleak world of Soviet prisons, a truth which all need and which is difficult for all, East and West; which is spoken and lived as rarely here as there. Solzhenitsyn's truth is the truth of individual dignity, of individual honesty, of individual importance. Whether in prison or out of it, he who searches for meaning, for his "inner self," who wrestles with the questions of right and wrong, who attempts to be truthful and faithful to himself and to those he loves, confirms...
...fend off a similar fate, many magazine publishers now face a bleak future of radical cost cutting...
Zardoz is visually bounteous. The locale is never specified, but the actors all have one variety or other of English accents, and the film draws much of its bleak, primitive beauty from the Irish countryside where it was shot. The costumes are comic-book eccentric, and fun: the women dress in tie-dyed gossamer, while Zed bounds around mostly in a red loincloth and bandoleers. Boorman gets good work from his cast. Besides Connery, and a fine assortment of character actors, there are the excellent Charlotte Rampling as a sort of stern, fairy-princess scientist; and Sara Kestelman...