Word: dourness
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...Marguerite and Armand unfolds, brief and mesmerizingly beautiful. The clip also possesses an innocence, a sweetness of spirit, that this 1982 blockbuster never even tries to capture. For a production that means to bring children back to the movies, dragging their parents with them, Annie has a dark, dour, meanspirited tone-Oliver Twist as retold by Fagin...
...Dining Room might be subtitled The Decline of the Wasp, except that it is clear-eyed, touching and buoyantly funny. The stage set itself is something of an anachronism with its Sheraton table, Hepplewhite chairs and dour ancestral portraits. The time span is from the Depression to the present. The dining room used to be the site of unalterable tribal rites-Thanksgiving, Christmas, family fiscal confabulations. Now people eat in the kitchen...
...initiative by the Roman Catholic Church to oppose the martial law regime of Polish General Wojciech Jaruzelski. Glemp, who returned to Warsaw last week with Archbishops Franciszek Cardinal Macharski of Cracow and Henryk Gulbinowicz of Wroclaw, seemed genuinely happy to be back on his native soil. Even the usually dour Macharski smiled broadly and told reporters at Okecie Airport: "Let us all be optimists. Things are not all that...
Hoover was rather dour by nature-Secretary of State Henry Stimson described a White House meeting as "like sitting in a bath of ink"-and he insisted that reduced spending and a balanced budget would end the slump. "Nobody is actually starving," Hoover said. "The hobos, for example, are better fed than they have ever been." Other U.S. officials were equally astute. Said Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon in 1930: "I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism." (Joke of the day: Hoover asks Mellon, "Can you lend me a nickel to call a friend...
...only trouble is that this bull market has been promised for a decade. And for the short-run 1982 outlook, many brokers are pessimistic. Last week's sudden market fall on Tuesday was indicative of the nervous and often dour mood along the street. The drop was set off by a downbeat interest rate forecast by Henry Kaufman, the influential chief economist for the investment banking firm of Salomon Bros. Kaufman, who has built up a very good record of interest-rate projecting over the past decade, has developed an almost cult following and a strong influence on stock...