Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Illinois, the nation's fourth largest coal-producing state, some 3,000 angry miners last week descended on the capitol in Springfield to protest the deepening gloom that is settling over the mines. In the rugged Appalachian heartland that reaches from the Virginias to eastern Kentucky, more than 10,000 miners have been idled since last summer, and they are angry and resentful...
Another view holds science writers themselves responsible for all the doom and gloom: because scientists write only for one another, usually in terms all but incomprehensible to lay people, word of new theories and breakthroughs is sometimes passed on to the public in overly dramatic and exaggerated form. Still, the most deadpan writing cannot disguise the drama of some of science's recent discoveries. The Big Bang theory of the universe, for example, has quite correctly convinced much of the public that the cosmos is unimaginably terrifying and violent. In the light of such findings, even theories that have...
Narrative's final strength, however, lies not in its appeal to the ear, but to the eye. By spotlighting the actors from above, Kim adds to the ambiance of gloom which he has already suggested through the character's black clothing. Indeed, blackness becomes the primary visual metaphor here, for the opacity of the experience, the characters' fragmented views of the their lives and of Purgatory, a place where reason and emotion can never be translated into action...
Giuliana's response is a period of gloom and fainting spells, followed by a livelier period of vigorous lovemaking with a handsome young novelist. Tullio dallies with his mistress, erring with her on fur in one fireside scene the lavishness of which approaches parody. But when the final break is at hand, he discovers that it is Giuliana who fascinates him. He lets Teresa rumble off to Paris by herself and forgives Giuliana, admitting that she has as much right as he to a lover. Since the novelist has by this time died of a tropical disease picked...
...scene could have been an outtake from The Spy Who Came In from the Cold or Funeral in Berlin: a young East German defector huddling with his wife and their small child in the gloom of a nearly deserted S-Bahn platform in East Berlin, waiting nervously through an early evening snow squall for the elevated train that will carry them to safety in West Berlin. The defector was Werner Stiller, 31, a lieutenant in East Germany's dreaded secret police and espionage agency. Miller had been working as a spy for West Germany. Now, following orders from Bonn...