Word: gloom
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Along empty, unlit streets in the gathering gloom, sleighs rasp over the ice. They carry branches lopped off trees that now stand like amputees in mute supplication to the heavens. Soon this last source of fuel for the city's l.5 million hungry, freezing residents will be gone, and the suffering will intensify...
...over any nice young man who considered having sex with someone he loved. Now especially for gay men, the threat is death. "Sex wasn't meant to be 'safe,' " Jeffrey says. "Or negotiated. Or fatal." But there's no sense moping, as a gay priest helpfully points out: "Terminal gloom -- who does that help? Even Brecht wrote musicals...
...their ten-gallon hats and lizard-skin boots, pose by their pickups and act nasty. Or ogle the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders as they sashayed their postseason routines across the hallowed petroleum-byproduct turf at Texas Stadium. Instead, there was Sunday upon Sunday filled with ignominy and gloom. No divisional championships. No Super Bowls...
...White House is not the only place infected by fin de regime gloom. It looks as if much of the government has been left Home Alone, without an adult in sight, making do at best, wreaking havoc at worst and squabbling like children over who is to blame. FBI Director William Sessions finds himself under investigation for ethical violations -- the victim, says his wife, of a smear campaign by his enemies within the bureau. Meanwhile the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Justice are engaged in an unseemly fight over which one of them issued misleading information about...
...Sinai: "Deficit reduction at this time, when the economy is so weak, is the wrong way to go." That's because the painful tax increases and spending cuts that Perot advocates would take money away from consumers and companies, thus deepening the country's already palpable mood of economic gloom...