Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predawn gloom at Leopold ville's Ndjili Airport, the DC-8 jetliner whined to a halt on the hardstand. Almost coyly, it poked its nose between a pair of aircraft chartered to ferry the last United Nations soldiers away from the Congo. From the hatch of the first-class compartment stepped a tall, plump man in a severe black suit, grinning like an African Fernandel. Burly, rifle-swinging Congolese cops and nervous Surete plainclothesmen hustled him into a black Chevy Impala with government plates, and off he sped into the flower-and sewage-scented dark. Thus last week with...
...California newspapers opposed Goldwater, including the staunchly Republican Los Angeles Times, which campaigned against him on Page One. Nearly all of the scores of reporters visiting California for the campaign thought that Rockefeller would win, wrote endlessly of the élan in his camp and of the pall of gloom hanging over the Goldwater forces. Some of this stemmed from the personal political predilections of many of the newsmen. But it was more than that-for, to the reporter who did nothing more than travel around with the candidates, the atmosphere was indeed deceptive...
Seltzer, in choosing to be as realistic as possible with an opulent production, has risked much. Sometimes the lavish effects work. Jon Warburg's lighting, especially in the storm scene and in the gloom of Brutus's tent on his last night, is imaginative and excellent. But the sound effects are artificial and distracting, the costumes cumbersome and noisy, and the battles athletic but hardly dramatic...
...early-morning gloom of Saigon's muggy pre-monsoon season, an alarm clock shrills in the stillness of a second-floor bedroom at 38 Phung Khac Khoan Street. The Brahmin from Boston arises, breakfasts on mango or papaya, sticks a snub-nosed .38-cal. Smith & Wesson revolver into a shoulder holster, and leaves for the office...
...chew the scenery, and feed each other jokes. But the jokes lack nourishment. Foppishly appraising a coffin, Price sneers: "Nobody in their right mind would be caught dead in that thing." True enough. So Basil Rathbone gets buried alive, while Boris Karloff, in a minor role, eyes his former gloom-mates and a dose of poison with equal distaste. "When I was young," Karloff grumbles, "we knew how to live." They also knew how to die - back in the days when a tongue in the cheek was soon pickled in brine...