Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrats, in an equally valiant manner, have struck back with domestic issues. Oh good! Gloom and doom. The problem is that even if the Democrats were to win, I doubt any solutions would be forthcoming. The recession might end, but the economy will still be in relative decline, the inner cities will still be collapsing, the homeless won't be finding homes, education will only get worse, and health care will still be inaccessible. Pessimistic? Apathetic? Cynical? Oh, a little, but isn't everyone? After all these years of hearing about the country going to hell, no one cares anymore...
Which proves the twin tenets that feed Hollywood's glory and gloom: 1) there is such a thing as star power; 2) there is no such thing as guaranteed star power...
...arrest, and its long-term deforming consequences for South African society, plays an oblique but significant role in the narrative -- especially in the distant fate foretold for the team in the novel's final paragraphs. Despite the deep optimism inherent in depicting their relationship, McClure ends in glints of gloom. He implies that no such bond can survive forever the fire storm of that nation's rage...
...buzz today about discontent, about social gloom and political drift, a crisis of faith in the future and a fading sense of national identity? An identity crisis -- in France? It sounds as unlikely as the notion of Cyrano de Bergerac fumbling his sword or groping for the mot juste. In his 1983 book The Europeans, the Italian journalist Luigi Barzini, a seasoned and mordant observer of the Continental scene, cites Edmond Rostand's fictional Cyrano as the quintessence of French character, at least as outsiders exaggerate it: the boastful, cocksure Gascon whose fellow provincials are defined in Rostand's play...
WORLD: Germany's Gloom...