Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Motors Corp., November has often been the crudest month. That is when the company issues its generally depressing annual earnings report. Last week the usual autumnal gloom was replaced by a bright, if fragile, sense of victory. The company reported earnings of $10.2 million on sales of $1.2 billion for the fiscal year ending in September, compared with a loss of $56 million on a volume of $1.1 billion last year. American's profit potential was also sweetened when the Price Commission approved a 2.5% price increase for its newest models...
Floodlit Muscles. This preference of the real over the ideal alarmed some of Caravaggio's contemporaries, but what troubled them most was his chief pictorial invention-the dramatic light and darkness that flooded his canvases. The eye cannot travel back into the gloom; it stops; instead, the muscular, straining limbs and backs that Caravaggio delighted in painting burst highlit from the picture surface. Form is almost literally shoved in the viewer's face. David with Head of Goliath, a painting of 1600 (which may, in the view of experts, be the work of a very close imitator), shows...
...most historic meeting in Manhattan last week was, needless to say, at the United Nations. But across town, NATO was conducting an even more tumultuous and unstatesmanlike session. This NATO was not the North Atlantic Treaty Organization but the equally embattled National Association of Theater Owners. The gloom at the meeting was almost as thick as the cigar smoke...
...Even the cherry blossoms along the Potomac seem to sense the magnitude. And magnitude there is. Yet magnitude there has been before, and the nation has survived. A mood of cautious optimism surged forward just at dusk. Then set the age-old sun behind these edifices of reason, and gloom once more descended. Yet gloom there has been, and in the end the nation has survived...Still, in this worried capitol tonight, men watch and men wait. So too do women and children in this worried capitol tonight watch and wait. This is Erect Severehead from Washington...
...rest of this fall's PBS lineup includes a reprise of Lord Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and a continuation of the BBC's Masterpiece Theater. The opening Masterpiece production is a felicitous, six-week serialization of Jude the Obscure, which, except for the gloom-struck overview of Thomas Hardy, is a sort of high-class Peyton Place. The Lucy of public TV, Julia Child, is also back in a new 26-part series on French cuisine, "designed," she says, "as a refresher course for experienced cooks and as a jet-assist take-off for beginners...