Word: dourness
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...Gilliam finds it impossible to sustain, let alone develop anything like a consistent comic tone. In the end, the director is mostly making dour social commentary on the society he invented. He is never able to connect it either with our own or with the historical period that apparently inspired...
...dispute between the two men has often been more a matter of style than substance. Dour and woefully inarticulate, Rabin has frequently been outshone by Peres, 53, an elegant, personable and cultivated man of the world, whose eloquence is legendary in Israel. Though sometimes dismissed by U.S. diplomats as a lightweight, Peres is in fact a hardheaded, pragmatic and dedicated statesman. Not even his worst enemies would begrudge him credit for his critical contribution to Israel's formidable defense establishment...
...third day of Vance's visit, in Brezhnev's Kremlin conference room, which once had been Lenin's study. As Vance and the Soviet leader faced each other across a 50-ft.-long table, the mood in the room was so strained that even normally dour Andrei Gromyko tried to lighten the atmosphere with a few lame attempts at humor. TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, who had previously reported from Moscow and was back last week covering the Vance trip, was struck by the Soviet leader's physical appearance: "Brezhnev's health had failed terribly since...
...write, it's zero outside. Snow is falling. But the Muscovites on their way to homes, universities or theaters this evening do not display the dour, inward-hunched, God-help-us visages of cold-stricken New Yorkers or Chicagoans. Snow is their friend, and servant...
...turnabout in Columbia basketball was by no means fortuitous. It began some three years ago when dour, reserved head coach Jack Rohan stepped down in favor of Penders, who had developed a reputation as a "rebuilding expert" while coaching in Connecticut. After winning only four games against twenty losses during Penders' rookie season, the Lions are 14-4 this year. With no seniors on the team, Columbia is 6-0 in Ivy League competition and is also ensconced in first place in the N.J.-N.Y. "7" after dispatching Rutgers, Manhattan, and Fordham. In addition, the Lions won their first tournament...