Word: glooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even with all that doom and gloom threatening the future, The Phantom Menace isn't all that menacing. It doesn't let on what's in store for Anakin or even hint at a latent evil within him (although master Yoda is fervent in his assertion that he senses danger in the boy). The story doesn't really center on Anakin but on the Jedi, which is probably a mistake, because neither Qui-Gon nor Obi-Won is an engaging enough character to give the movie the gas it needs to really move...
...straight there. First, stop at the dining hall, show them the glistening, sauteed steak tips and then head over for a slice. After Mom and Dad guzzle down their grease-soaked nourishment, go back, to your poorly lit dorm room. Sit around in the gloom for a couple of hours discussing what to do with the rest of the evening. At around 10 o'clock, after "Nash Bridges" is over, hit the Grille. Buy Dad a pitcher of Red Dog and maybe play a little trivia...
Soldini's good fortune--and Autissier's--held. Two and a half hours later, Soldini peered through the predawn gloom and spied the white upturned hull of Autissier's boat, the PRB, being pounded by waves the size of a four-story building. Twice he steered as close as he dared, but, he says, "I couldn't see her anywhere." Calling out her name and getting no answer, he feared the worst. On his third pass, he hurled a hammer at the hull. It landed with a sharp crack. Moments later, an escape hatch in the stern opened...
...cloud of gloom looms over fair Cambridge. The town villains have captured thousands of students and trapped them in small rooms where they must read philosophical theory and science "texts." The future looks bleak for these captives. But there is one hope. Our hero, the biggest comic book collection in the land (okay, Harvard) can be found lying in wait among mere mortals in the Qube, a.k.a. Quincy House library...
...creative thinking and foster a real dislike of learning. The grownups who think homework is good for kids are the same ones who think lima beans and Brussels sprouts are great. It breaks my heart that dinner at my house is usually macaroni and cheese and a pall of gloom. LAUREN ARNOLD Mountain View, Calif...