Word: bleaknesses
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...adaptation tidies up the sprawling novel a bit. One regrets the loss of a few of Dickens' colorful minor characters, along with much of his humor. (Where, for instance, is Mrs. Jellyby, that ardent philanthropist who ignores her sorry children while campaigning to help the natives of Borrioboola-Gha?) Bleak House was, perhaps, not meant to be quite as bleak as this...
...Miss Flite, the daft old regular at Chancery, who collapses one day and tingles with joy at being carried home by "the principals in Jarndyce and Jarndyce." Each takes part in what Vladimir Nabokov described as Dickens' "magic democracy," where even the tiniest characters have a vivid afterlife. This Bleak House, like the London fog of old, is hard to shake. --By Richard Zoglin
...early afternoon, and the smells of dirty diapers and grease mingle in the bleak Minneapolis apartment. The TV is tuned to All My Children, and Stephanie Charette, 17, has collapsed on the sofa. Her rest is brief. Above the babble of the actors' voices comes a piercing wail. Larissa, her three-week-old daughter, is hungry. In an adjacent bedroom, Joey, l l/2 years old and recovering from the flu, starts to stir. Stephanie, who is an American Indian and one of ten children herself, first became pregnant at 15. It was an "accident," she explains...
...bleak Chicago community called Grand Boulevard, this sort of thing happens all the time. "For children to die is part of the life-style," says Linda Edwards, a social worker who counsels high-risk mothers in the area. In the U.S. as a whole, roughly one baby in 100 will die before its first birthday. In Grand Boulevard, one in every 38 dies, and there are streets where the rate is closer...
...Soviets can beat the Afghans," said one official. Washington fears, however, that heavy rebel casualties and the psychological toll of battle could slow resistance as the war grinds on. Concurred Jonathan Alford, deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies: "It is beginning to look like a very bleak future for the mujahedin." The new Soviet drive is certain to be one of the first topics when stalemated talks aimed at ending the conflict resume next week in Geneva. EXILES Mrs. Marcos' New Shoes...