Word: cheerlessness
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Burroughs delivers cheerless homilies with his usual gimlet-eyed glee: "You ever see a dog roll in carrion? Well now, a city boy see that and he might get tempted to join the dog . . ." The old hipster even indulges in a bit of moralizing, making a somewhat heavy-handed connection between the magic bullets and the temptation of drugs...
Some social workers believe communities may have to open orphanages. But they envision institutions that are smaller and more homelike than the cheerless warehouses of old. Whatever the strategy, society will need to pay more attention to AIDS orphans. "In the next 10 years a lot of the families who are presently coping will not be able to do it any longer," Levine predicts. "There are not enough grandmothers to raise these children...
Tragedy struck some Harvard students last night as they faced the dire prospect of a "Cheerless" existence...
Carefully, constructedly cool, Quartett takes the complex, bulky plot of the novel and pares it down to two actors who alternate personalities and sexes with cheerless machination in a game of sex and vengeance. Winsome Brown as the Marchioness, Merteuil, plays her role with bloodthirsty relish. Her obvious confidence and professionalism enable her to add the strain of comic self-consciousness that brings the play to life. Brown moves in tightening circles around Tom Hopkins as Valmont, the lethargic predator turned prey. Hopkins' Valmont is charming and at times strikingly perverse. On the other hand, the interaction between these...
...just as well, because according to Edward of DHR Stylists, a balding man is a cheerless...