Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hall launched the project with star vehicles: Vanessa Redgrave in Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending and Dustin Hoffman in The Merchant of Venice, both of which transferred to Broadway. Now he aims at London only, ranging from the money-harried gloom of Ibsen's The Wild Duck to the haute-bourgeois sexual antics of Tartuffe. In October he returns briefly to the nonprofit R.S.C. with an All's Well That Ends Well starring Sophie Thompson, sister of Oscar winner Emma. His best evidence yet that a classic can prevail on the basis of the text itself is Lysistrata. The ancient Greek...
...source of Foster's gloom was an early July Wall Street Journal editorial that excoriated the White House for exporting a quadrille of lawyers from Hillary Clinton's old law firm in Arkansas. At the time, Foster commented to a colleague in the counsel's office that "maybe it would be better if I go back to Little Rock...
...children have always bloodily expired, Powers writes in his mood of apocalyptic gloom. His hero, tormented by daymares and night sweats, broods by the dozens of pages over the medieval horror of the Children's Crusade, relishes at chapter-length the cold irony of the Pied Piper legend, written out with speaking parts for everyone except the rats. Writhing as he pares away wrecked body parts, Kraft imagines, for the duration of a novella, cynical child abuse during the evacuation of London's children at the time of the blitz (rural lechers taking the pretty preteens into their homes, ignoring...
Clinton's progress coincided with several successes on Capitol Hill last week that suggest that this White House may not spend all four years in intensive care. Most were months in the making, and none were unalloyed Clinton wins. But their combined effect broke the gloom that had pervaded the White House and fractured some of the gridlock in Washington. After weeks of intraparty wrangling, Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee agreed to a deficit-reduction measure that included a gasoline tax increase of 4.3 cents per gal. and a $68 billion cut in Medicare benefits over five years. While...
...Gloom is hanging over this opera," says Banks from behind the piano. "I want you all to know this...