Word: gloom
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...towners. They generally praise federal government agencies as well as the Red Cross and state and local governments for a prompt initial response. But some also report frustrating delays, run-arounds, indecision and lack of information. And emotions range from relief to grief, calmness to anxiety, optimism to gloom. People who had the least to begin with are sounding the most marooned. Difficult decisions, for individuals and communities, loom about how to rebuild, including whether to seek a federal property buyout. In Oakville, where 193 of 203 homes and businesses were heavily damaged or destroyed, many of the 439 residents...
...vote will plunge the E.U. into a period of despondency and inertia. E.U. leaders are due to meet in Brussels on June 19, for a summit which was set to decide on key environmental and energy targets but is instead expected to be overshadowed by a fog of gloom. And unfortunately for the E.U., that looks unlikely to lift any time soon...
Rowling’s arrival comes at a time of gloom for the book industry at large, but during a moment of celebration for Harvard Square’s booksellers: the Harvard Coop, the Harvard Book Store, and the Globe Corner Bookstore all marked important anniversaries this year...
...made the night more exciting. So it seems strange—at least to one who put away her black cat costume about seven years ago—that there should be such a fuss this year over Halloween. Of course, the recent Tylenol poisonings cast a shade of gloom over just about any drugstore purchase. These days we reach for the aspirin with a sinking feeling that this might be the last one we take. But candy and capsules are different things. Caution is always in order, but this year should have proved no more worrisome than any other...
...would do, an animated wolf/bear duo of intergalactic adventurers explore a planet inhabited by pouty-mouthed, bikini-clad creaturelings who love a good party. After a night of orgiastic cartoon excess, the plot takes a sharp turn into “Pit and the Pendulum” doom and gloom, as wolf and bear narrowly escape their female captors-turned-ritualistically-sacrificing-robots. Not quite as idiosyncratic as Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo, but bizarre enough, considering that Quincy’s working without Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The cartoon storyline does little to illuminate Les Savy Fav?...