Word: dismalness
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...performance is set on a dismal, grey landscape--a path on the mudflats of the Swartops river. Boesman and Lena have nothing but what they carry on their backs, and what they carry is "white man's rubbish"--pieces of metal to make a shack for the night, a rusty barrel, a few dirty blankets and two wooden crates...
Karl Marx would have understood their revolt. Just outside Leipzig's jumble of medieval churches and high-rises lies one of the most dismal landscapes in Europe. This is the heart of the rust belt: mile after mile of blackened smokestacks spew sulfurous coal smoke into the yellow sky; workers labor in ramshackle chemical and textile plants under Dickensian conditions of dirt and noise. To the east stretch crumbling tenements built 100 years ago; to the west sprawl ugly new developments virtually devoid of stores, cinemas or restaurants. Average monthly incomes would buy just $30 of goods in the West...
...companies and an unprecedented 600 models on the scene, and with ten Japanese "transplant" factories in North America expected to help create an excess carmaking capacity of 2.7 million autos by 1991, the marketplace is certain to be littered with casualties. A leading indicator of the struggle was the dismal performance of Detroit's Big Three during the July-September quarter, in which they all lost money on their North American operations and posted a 27.5% decline in total earnings...
...ridicule horror novels. But in each genre there is good trash and bad trash, and King's does not seem very good. Mention this to a fan -- young, intelligent, well read -- and the reply is the same as is heard, above the level of pop lit, when one more dismal fiction by Joyce Carol Carol Oates appears: "Yes, but you should read the early books...
...democracy. "But I was not going back to refusing to shake somebody's hand." He was harking back to 1954, when Dwight Eisenhower's Secretary of State John Foster Dulles ignored the outstretched hand of Chou En-lai in Geneva, humiliating the Chinese Premier and further complicating the dismal relations between the two nations...