Word: gloom
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...Mean Widdle Kid and Freddie the Freeloader, that made giddy audiences squeal--for mercy and for more. Skelton, too, often dissolved into giggles at his own antics, even after his son died of leukemia in 1958. Then he laughed louder, once saying, "A clown is a warrior who fights gloom...
...Yeltsin's current disability has thrown Russia into a state of paralysis and gloom even worse than that produced last fall when the extent of his heart problems became known...
However provisionally, the culture of gloom is lifting. People are trying out the words "I will be,"arguably the most complicated phrase in the English language. In the U.S., insurance companies and Social Security pay more than $1.5 billion in disability benefits each year to about 100,000 AIDS patients. But newly revived patients are now thinking about giving up disability and returning to work. Before they can do that, there are questions. Federal disabilities law bars discrimination against people with AIDS, but how many employers will hire an applicant with an expensive health problem? And if the benefits...
...might help everyone forget the dismal gloom of winter for at least an hour...
...friends since the early 1970s, first around Boston, where she was a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, then in the lofts and hangouts of New York City's Lower East Side. When she joined her slides to a sound track of French torch songs, gloom pop and Kurt Weill--music where the balance between real and false pathos was always shifting--the whole thing took on a desolate wit. Here were some buzz-cut kids cocked for trouble. There was a woman sorting herself out in a washroom mirror. Here was another rumpled bed, with...