Word: gloom
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...cause of all the gloom was Paul McCartney, the group's supremely gifted songwriter, singer and guitarist, who was just bringing out a solo LP all his own. Entitled McCartney, logically enough, the record package was decorated with color pictures-of Paul McCartney. It also contained a provocative interview with McCartney, parts of which somehow got to the press last week before the record went on sale...
...focusing on details-cadging an extra bowl of food, finding half a cigarette, making a compassionate gesture. We're being very wary of pretty pictures, those Zhivago-style long wide shots." His cameraman is Ingmar Bergman's cinematographer, Sven Nykvist, whose austere lens could seek out the gloom in a travel poster...
Colors in the metalwork, enamel and stained glass imbue the rooms with rich tone: the people were not just surrounded with the gray gloom of the stone cathedrals. Large illuminated books also brighten the exhibition. But the works that insist on stopping you, that freeze their image on your mind, are the quiet sculptures of stone and wood. One large majestic figure of Christ on the cross stares straight ahead, alive but unaware of the nails in his hands: his strong body, as stiff as the shape of the cross, seems beyond the ability to feel physical pain...
Judging from this issue of the Advocate. the answer will be a long time in the coming. This is not so much a reflection on the magazine itself as on the pervading gloom that appears to have settled in everywhere you look to see where writing is headed, wherever you look, to find out what good things are happening. Examples are scarce; there are not many very good writers around, even fewer great ones. No one speaks of visions anymore-it is word in great disfavor, we are learning to live without visions-and yet without them without dreams...
...severe fuel shortage adds to the country's gloom and discomfort. Because of slowdowns by the coal miners, the people have received only half of the coal that they need to keep warm. Private homes are bitterly cold. After work, many Czechoslovaks immediately get into bed under eiderdowns in an effort to keep warm. Even the hospitals are so poorly heated that doctors and nurses bundle up in sweaters while patients are covered with all available blankets. At first, many Czechoslovaks used their gas cooking stoves to heat their dwellings. Now the gas supply is so low that many...