Word: dourness
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...band's first record. For years Moloney, an accountant, and the others kept their day jobs; some dropped out. Of the original five, only Moloney and fiddler Martin Fay remain; the others are Conneff (percussion), Sean Keane (second fiddle), Matt Molloy (flute) and Derek Bell (harp and keyboards), whose dour banker's visage is uncapped onstage to reveal a wily mischiefmaker. "We keep the humor going," says Moloney. "I grew up in an atmosphere where music was about happiness and song." But the group's approach to their traditional airs is one of unawed connoisseurship. They...
...guard at his luxury apartment building in Singapore had been complaining about the noise from Leeson's computer printer. It was grinding out copy from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m.--the hours Wall Street did business 12 time zones away. During the daytime, the young Englishman appeared distracted, almost dour. In the trading pit of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange, where Leeson worked from dawn to 7 p.m. among the other men who yelled at numbers careening across video screens, a fellow trader remembers that people would say hello to him and he wouldn't seem to hear them...
Ahmad is more liberal than most in the fundamentalist group. Female employees at the station wear Islamic head scarves-but not severe black Iranian chadors. Ahmad has also phased out dour Iranian movies in favor of more popular Egyptian and Western fare: last week's schedule featured Under California Stars, a 1948 Roy Rogers western (Trigger is captured by horse thieves) and The Day of the Triffids, a 1963 British sci-fi film about man-eating plants. Not that Lighthouse TV will ever be confused with hbo; scenes enlivened by Hollywood staples like sex and alcohol are deleted, and voice...
Walzer painted a dour portrait of the shift towards conservatism...
Russia's future is bright despite the dour predictions of press and scholars, Anatoly Sobchak, mayor of St. Petersburg, told an audience of about 350 at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics last night...