Word: glooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began, captain Marc Chapus has to bow out of his events because of injuries. The withdrawal prompted teammate Dave Frim to say to coach Bill McCurdy just before the proceedings opened, "Things just don't look so good." But, as McCurdy recalled afterwards, "That was the last word of gloom I heard that evening...
...read the news today, oh boy. Ten thousand holes . . ." John Lennon's voice pierced the gloom of the Harvard locker room last night. The Crimson had just fallen, 72-45, to a team it defeated last year and might have beaten on a good day this year. Oh boy, indeed...
...Berlin Requiem presented on stage might prove a worthwhile experiment; but on a double bill it undercuts its competition, turning its audience from theater-goers into listeners. Between the stern, subterranean gloom of the Requiem and the moral topology of The Seven Deadly Sins, the evening of theater becomes oppressive--more oppressive than necessary, even to portray Brecht's oppression-filled world...
This song goes nowhere, reciting the details of human inconveniences and miseries without any promise of ending them. Yet for all its gloom, "Life During Wartime" was a hit for Talking Heads, their biggest to date--proof that for the listening public (and the dancing public, which also latched onto this song), war had become a fashionable subject...
...revolution," declared a member of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy's staff. "It's a total reversal-the change is going to be drastic," said an aide to one of the Senate's few surviving liberal Republicans, Maryland's Charles Mathias. The gloom and foreboding among the anonymous legislative technicians who had hitched their careers to long-dominant Democrats and once fashionable moderate Republicans in the U.S. Senate were symbolic of the postelection upheaval on Capitol Hill. Aides who could joke at the prospect of soon being out of a job mimicked Paul Revere: "The conservatives...