Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sister finds out, she will laugh at me. "Erasure sucks," she'll tell me, and she'll be right. Their sound is flat, canned and corporate. They're just a happy Depeche Mode, and what did the members of DM ever really have going for them except stylish gloom? I thought I'd long outgrown Erasure's typical, cloying, techno sound. And "ABBA-esque" is a skimpy, derivative album consisting of four covers of ABBA songs...
There are few bright spots amid this job gloom. While some parts of the economy -- notably the health-care industry and state and local government -- are adding workers, most American firms are making cutbacks a way of life. Even as students, new graduates and other job seekers poured into the labor market, the U.S. lost a disheartening 117,000 jobs in June. So far this year, corporate America has shed an average of 1,500 positions a day. Says Mitchell Fromstein, president of Manpower Inc., the largest U.S. temporary help service: "In any company with more than 1,000 employees...
...fluorescent gloom pervades the courtroom for Criminal Business of the Third District Court of east Middlesex Country. The ceiling lights have the grayish-white color of dirty institutional bed linen, and colors are sapped, dulled in this civil service twilight. The chalkboard looks olive drab, the cheap wall veneer blends into the dusty browns of the portraits. Even the well-tanned private lawyers look wan and pasty...
Perhaps the gloom is appropriate. Justice is practiced wholesale here, with five to ten cases pushed through hour after hour, day after day. This room on the 13th floor of Middlesex Country Courthouse witness the administrative grinding of the American judicial system; arraignments first and then pre-trial conferences in the late morning and afternoon...
...GLOOM IN THE TIME OF GLASNOST...