Word: gloom
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...down the channels of its awareness and puts them into play in new settings. They collide and cross- pollinate and mix it up, nowhere more so than in the arts and popular culture. Sparks fly at the meeting points. The Jewish novel works variations on the keynotes of Puritan gloom. The western is reseen through John Ford's Irish eyes. Sinatra meets Duke Ellington. Every offering is admitted and set dancing with new partners. It may be better to give, but it's a lot more fun to receive...
...straight. The only time he acted otherwise was when he went to bed with Michael Ontkean, who played another all-American. Though Hamlin's credentials as a heterosexual were beyond dispute -- he was living at the time with sexy Ursula Andress -- his realistic characterization cast his career into a gloom that was lifted only...
...chess finals; his Soviet counterpart (David Carroll); and the American's adviser and erstwhile bedmate (Judy Kuhn), who falls in love with the Soviet. Theirs is not a charming Ninotchka-style romance: the CIA and the KGB hover on the periphery, exploiting the players and the game. Offsetting the gloom are a clear narrative drive, Nunn's trademark cinematic staging, three superb leading performances by actors willing to be complex and unlikable and one of the best rock scores ever produced in the theater. This is an angry, difficult, demanding and rewarding show, one that pushes the boundaries...
After returning to Dukakis' staff following the Ferraro campaign Sasso and another gubernatorial aides urged Dukakis to run for president, saying his optimism and record would offer the Democratic Party a fresh alternative to the "doom and gloom" approach Sasso blamed for the crushing defeats of Mondale in 1984 and President Carter...
Republicans may whine about the "gloom and doom" and the rampant inflation of the Carter years. Soaring inflation and interest rates during the Carter years had less to do with national policies than with an unfavorable world financial scene caused by the energy crisis. And the drop in oil prices during the Reagan years, likewise, should not be credited to the Administration...