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...gloom of a hospital ward, an injured man contemplating his future, a young soldier's face on a tombstone: all part of the aftermath of a war the Soviets started in 1979 and abandoned last February, when the last of Moscow's troops rolled out of Afghanistan. The Kremlin's misadventure not only cost the lives of some 15,000 Soviet soldiers and left 35,000 injured but also marked the first time the U.S.S.R. had ever been defeated in war. As illustrated by these photographs, mostly taken at a military hospital outside Moscow, the agony of Afghanistan goes...
...transformation in the lives of my contemporaries was far more subtle. Reagan's desire (apart from that of some his crazier compatriots) was foremost to rid the country of its malaise, and to dispel what he felt was a national gloom. He mentioned this proudly only last week in his farewell address. In some sense, he has surely succeeded in restoring hope and confidence, for the economic recovery of the last several years would never have succeeded without the faith of investors...
Rising interest rates usually bring gloom to the stock market, since they can presage a slowing economy. But stocks are doing the unexpected. Last Friday the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 2226.07, its highest level since Oct. 16, 1987, the Friday before Black Monday. It was up 32 points for the week and 57 points since...
Occasionally, a star of hope radiates through all this gloom. Recently he was waiting for a train at Penn Station, when a well-dressed man asked him if he was "the glove guy." Says Greenberg: "He said that I had given him a pair of gloves on the Bowery five years previously and that now he was married with two children, and he wanted to give me $20 to buy more gloves. I told him the same as I tell others who want to write me a check: no thank you. You spend the money on gloves, and you give...
This is not to say that Macon's gloom is without just cause. A year before The Accidental Tourist begins, his beloved son has been killed in a particularly senseless crime. As the film opens, his wife Sarah (Kathleen Turner) walks out on him because his grief has made him so deeply withdrawn that he cannot help her bear her sorrow. Her departure leaves Macon with his dismal career as a writer of travel books for people who hate traveling; with the dubious consolations of his own family, a sister and two brothers who are as joylessly guarded and compulsive...