Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lost Uplift. None of the theories, however, explain why this year's un-festive gloom clings only to Munich and other Bavarian cities. In the Rhineland, the freewheeling Karneval was going strong last week, as noisy and popular as ever. Tickets to Sitzungen (cabaret entertainments) were sold out; dances were crowded, and in normally somnolent Bonn the federal government and city administration started closing down last week as celebrating civil servants took to the streets. Seeking to explain the difference, some Germans theorized that wine-drinking Rhinelanders are more lighthearted than stolid, beer-drinking Bavarians. Mimchner...
...that they cut back on welfare, stop the busing, "do something about the war," balance the budget, improve the quality of public education and get the Federal Government to mind its own business. They do not see many candidates who seem likely to do all those things and their gloom deepens. "All I want," says Miami Drawbridge Tender Peter Rozema, "is someone who won't give me a screwing." "We all seem to have the blahs," says Ken Bleakly, president of the Rollins College student body. "We need a national purpose and a candidate of honesty and virtue. Muskie...
...Rooms of Gloom...
Strolling disconsolately along London's Bond Street, Author Anthony Burgess was accosted by a friend who wanted to know why all the gloom. He was on his way, said Burgess, to dine with Producer-Director Stanley Kubrick and to see A Clockwork Orange. But why the long face, asked his friend, since the film -made from Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name-is the hit of the year? "Precisely," said Burgess. "I sold the screen rights long ago for a few hundred dollars...
...Helen of Troy. No play so great has ever failed so abysmally. Not even Marlowe's poetry could save the film from its stylistic pretensions--no important line was let past without the screen quivering in peculiar effects of light and color; no setting lacked a quality of manufactured gloom. At its climactic worst--as Faustus prepares for damnation--red blotches swirl round his head, and music builds to a crescendo. Burton grimaces in the best Burton fashion, and Faustus is swallowed into hell. All told, it was a disaster of sufficient proportion to make me doubt whether any film...