Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THEY always lived in a bleak wonderland, captives of their own pinched myths, these White House men now in so much trouble...
With such a grim, bleak view, relentlessly abetted by Jeff Bleckner's stolidly reverential direction, there is little room for such diversionary tactics as entertainment or such revisionist behavior as love and the spontaneous response of one human being to another. Only one actor seems to escape the arid dogmatism of the evening-Marcia Jean Kurtz as Clytemnestra the mother. When she pleads for her daughter's life, she reveals a tenacity and a tenderness that banish all curses and shame all crimes...
...daybreak on Tuesday, as an unseasonable snowfall blanketed the south of France, a small cortege left Mougins and carried Picasso's body to his 14th century chateau at Vauvenargues in the bleak Provencal countryside. Accompanying the body were Picasso's widow; her daughter by her first marriage, Catherine Hutin; and Paulo, 52, Picasso's son by his first marriage to the Russian dancer Olga Koklova. After the 1 10-mile journey, the mahogany casket, without ceremony, was placed in the chateau chapel to await the building of a mausoleum...
...client to give part of his property to his children, the lawyer needs to temper his knowledge of the tax advantages of such a transfer with knowledge of how children behave towards parents from whom they have nothing more to expect materially. I suspect that a reading of Dickens' Bleak House will teach a lawyer more about the pitfalls of complicated trusts than an advanced seminar on the subject, because Bleak House deals with the inter-action of people with the law, rather than a sterile analysis of the law itself...
...paper ran a factually-correct story stating that the regents had misappropriated almost $600,000 for a new chancellor's mansion. The regents had never liked the paper's anti-war editorials anyway. In turn, the Daily Texan sued the regents and the university system. Legal costs and bleak financial projections for an off-campus operation forced a settlement whereby the paper accepted joint editorial control with the faculty...