Word: glooming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeltsin's current disability has thrown Russia into a state of paralysis and gloom even worse than that produced last fall when the extent of his heart problems became known...
However provisionally, the culture of gloom is lifting. People are trying out the words "I will be,"arguably the most complicated phrase in the English language. In the U.S., insurance companies and Social Security pay more than $1.5 billion in disability benefits each year to about 100,000 AIDS patients. But newly revived patients are now thinking about giving up disability and returning to work. Before they can do that, there are questions. Federal disabilities law bars discrimination against people with AIDS, but how many employers will hire an applicant with an expensive health problem? And if the benefits...
...might help everyone forget the dismal gloom of winter for at least an hour...
...friends since the early 1970s, first around Boston, where she was a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, then in the lofts and hangouts of New York City's Lower East Side. When she joined her slides to a sound track of French torch songs, gloom pop and Kurt Weill--music where the balance between real and false pathos was always shifting--the whole thing took on a desolate wit. Here were some buzz-cut kids cocked for trouble. There was a woman sorting herself out in a washroom mirror. Here was another rumpled bed, with...
...fullest portrait yet of an artist whose vision of human existence as a painful, poignant marking of time between the crib and the crypt helped define our world view in the atomic age. In doing so, they correct the canard that Beckett's work is boring, mired in gloom; the Gate pieces were darkly funny and passionate. And they reveal Beckett, who may seem so forbidding and remote as to be of another species, as a stoic but gentle man, a hero of the French Resistance and a generous soul--he once impulsively gave his new jacket to a derelict...