Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1960s, amid the general decay of national certainties, Frank's book made the transition from infamous to revered. Suddenly his gloom seemed prophetic. His faith that the best pictures were tentative, imperfect and free of rhetoric became the model for any photographer coming to grips with the ambiguities of the American civilization. After a while his difficult vision of things was so well loved and widely imitated that it verged on becoming a late 20th century salon style: downer picturesque...
Despite all the doom and gloom, there were bright spots for the Crimson. Harvard's offense gained 397 yards in total offense. Junior tailback Kweli Thompson rushed for 122 yards. The punting and kicking games looked solid...
Students can expect to see the most salient manifestation of the rainy season's onslaught, a mass epidemic of gloom-induced depression, arriving soon. This phenomenon is the result of individuals who spent their summer basking on the beach suddenly finding their primary source of light reduced to a $2.95 halogen bulb...
...Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds -- but if they are late, they'll hide or trash your mail and no one will be the wiser." That seems to be the new motto for certain employees of the U.S. Postal Service. In a surprise audit disclosed last week, postal inspectors in Washington found that some local managers temporarily stashed unprocessed mail in parked trailers so that the letters and packages wouldn't be immediately noticed as delayed. Millions of pieces of undelivered mail were found, including...
However, soccer has not been met only by gloom and ignorance. My roommates and I have been watching avidly for the return of Cameroonian star Roger Milla, who at 42 was placed on the team by government orders because of his immense popularity. We started kicking a ball around at the Business School with graduate students on weekends. And, yes, we watch Univision, the Spanish channel. They show all of the games and all of the injury time. Sure, the play-by-play is completely incomprehensible, but we just know that it's better than Roger Twibell's nonsense...