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...Amid the gloom and doom is the surprisingly cheerful Delta Air Lines CEO Gerald Grinstein, who came out of retirement to take over the airline three years ago. Now that the No. 3 carrier is emerging from 19 months of bankruptcy restructuring on April 30, and with his legacy at the company securely in place, Grinstein, 74, plans to retire (again) this fall. Until then, he is savoring a victory lap. On May 3 he flies Delta to New York City from his home base of Atlanta to relist the airline on the New York Stock Exchange as DAL, with...
...significant contributions cannot rescue the film. Technically, “First Snow” boasts some shining moments but never achieves originality. Cinematography by Eric Alan Edwards lends an eerie and surreal sense to the film by incorporating images of the sparse New Mexico desert in various states of gloom. While interesting as a stand-alone project, the music by Cliff Martinez clashes with the content of the film. Classical and refined, the score falls short of creating the tense mood that is clearly intended. As both director and screenwriter, Fergus controls several key components of his film...
...hisessay "A Can-Do Nation" [April 9], Bill Bradley rightly described the American character as "open, generous, expansive, forward looking, creative, egalitarian and optimistic." His article should be required reading for each and every presidential candidate. Enough with the gloom and doom...
With the bunker's heavy metal lid dragged to one side, dank musty air rose up from the entrance, the forbidding gloom of the narrow steel-lined shaft below unbroken by the bright sunlight. It had taken seven months of searching to finally discover one of the underground bunkers that had enabled Hizballah to fire thousands of rockets into northern Israel last summer even under the pounding of Israeli air and ground operations. But any sense of exhilaration at the achievement was dampened by the nagging anxiety of claustrophobia...
...almost missed the manhole cover beneath its layer of dirt, dead leaves and twigs. Using metal footholds, I climbed down into the gloom below and saw with some relief that the tunnel at the bottom was larger than we had feared. We would have to crouch, but not crawl. It was still a tight squeeze as we inched cautiously along the dank silent passageway, which ran for about 20 feet before turning left and descending in a gradual slant. The rock sides of the tunnel were lined with a mesh of steel bars and girders. Huge brown spiders clinging...