Word: glooming
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...side takes the other seriously, and neither--because of the absolute moral terms in which their "debate" has been couched--deigns to consider more moderate views. Meanwhile the public remains largely uneducated about the complexities of nuclear strategy instead, individuals take sides based on whether they fear more the gloom of a nuclear holocaust or the doom of Soviet hegemony...
...Captain pays Chino with one bag of each drug and watches him skitter off into the gloom. Then he picks up Snowdrop and, eager to speedball, heads for Peewee's shooting gallery a few blocks away. The Captain warns of dangers immediately after any buy. "Guys could be all over you in seconds ... They use ice picks and slip them into your heart like butter...
...twelve years I had everything I most wanted on earth." He labored on to complete the nine volumes of his excellent history of the Jefferson years, then gave a verdict on his own life by burning all the diaries he had kept since college. "In the midst of gloom and depression I have come to the last page of my history," he wrote in one of the few diary fragments that somehow survived the incineration and is included in this book. "I wish I cared but I do not care a straw...
...Beckett, no carrots, almost no gloom, but surreal Acts Without Words nonetheless. Scene: a bare Broadway stage. Standing, center, a man a week shy of 60 but supple as a teenager, lean in tights, innocent in whiteface...
...takes up a man and his story wholeheartedly. . . Next time you see her she'll be in deep, going to fortunetellers, slipping his name into every other sentence; with this mention of the name there will be a mushy sound to her voice. . . Then comes the onset of gloom, the doubts . . . She will get drunk, and sign up for rolfing, swim therapy, gymnastics. In none of this is she so exceptional. She does what women...