Word: gloom
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...fellow graduate students, far from absorbing these radical thinkers, ran off after dull, pedantic European poststructuralists, who were trapped in cynical semantic mindgames that my generation had ditched when we substituted Elvis Presley for gloom and doom Samuel Beckett. Despite their inflated reputations, none of the French theorists, including Foucaults, is competent at speculation about either history or sexuality. Those who claim otherwise are naively credulous or uninformed...
...thick of Moscow's midwinter gloom, the pupils of Special English Language School No. 20 at Vspolny Lane in central Moscow have good reason to be cheerful. First of all, their New Year's vacation was extended four days to Jan. 14. During that time their classrooms will be painted and spruced up. Then upon their return the students are hoping to have some special English- speaking guests: President and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Children in the lower grades have been eagerly preparing a musical program...
...feeling that the recession is far enough in the past that the threat to people who have hung onto their jobs is over; they can unzip their wallets. Richard Outcalt, president of Seattle-based Outcalt & Johnson Retail Strategists, puts it simply: "There's strong evidence now that the gloom and doom is dead. It just got boring." In New York City, Nancy Few-Smith, a former vice president of New York Telephone who describes herself as a part-time travel agent and "professional shopper," declares, "I'm fed up with the recession." In the past few years, she says...
...comes to this understanding in the course of her own relationship with Mike, who tries to convert her to his ways--love of nature, literature, gloom and doom skepticism and a dose of televangelism. He only becomes overbearing as she realizes her wants and needs are different. In a reposeful moment in bed with him, she wryly thinks to herself, "We are all suckers for the tender, cozy life." Gradually she pulls away from this relationship. Ruby has always been comfortable with herself, she has always relied on herself to get through life, but by the film...
MUSIC Mariah Carey sings like an angel, but she needs some new material. THEATER A timeless comedy urges women to trade sex for peace. CINEMA Bad Behaviour is an improvised comedy about disheveled lives. BOOKS A lively biography of Philip Larkin, England's poet of gloom. TELEVISION The Wrong Man is sleazy, stinging film noir set in Mexico...