Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pessimism. The overvaluation of the Mexican peso has been eliminated, and this step will provide badly needed oxygen for Mexican industry. Inflation will go down again, the exchange rate with the dollar will be adjusted, and Mexican shares will climb to their fair value. The prophets of gloom will once more be proved wrong, because the underpinnings of our economy--human, industrial and commercial--are intact. This society has an extraordinary potential for growth...
...Dark Age coming but the dawn of the Newt Age. So shake off your gloom, doom and Newtophobia. Let there be color and hope...
...After a low entranceway the space soars, thanks to a circular well that rises clear through the building and finishes in the slanting oculus 130 ft. above. It transmits enough light down through the building for Botta to use a dramatic chiaroscuro of materials without sinking the interior in gloom-a striped floor of black and gray granite, for example...
...discrediting earlier biographies. Hardy in recent years has been the subject of two substantial portraits, Michael Millgate's and Robert Gittings', both of which bathe him in a cold, harsh light. Seymour-Smith strives "to see how much gaiety and good humor coexisted in Hardy, with the too celebrated gloom." That's a noble-sounding goal, and yet the paradoxical result is dispiriting: a spiteful-seeming attempt to prove another's magnanimity. Seymour-Smith spends so much time snapping at his predecessors that the effect, finally, is like a scene from one of those unblinking nature documentaries where jackals, hyenas...
...Gloom never settled so quickly, before the foot lights as when Silver decides to preach issues. Pterodactyls does not descend emotional crests, it, plunges from them. In a Kathleen Turneresque growl, Grace bear down on Tommy with a triumphant speech, reaching the peak of her comic crescendo only to be interrupted by a gun discharging upstairs. Utter silence falls with the curtain as Todd intones. "Suddenly it became very cold." Manipulation reigns as Silver's king principle of craft...