Word: glum
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Schacht, while he looks for a turnaround-minded CEO to replace him, says the company will go slower when it comes to front-loading its books. He's also warned investors to expect the next few earnings periods to be on the glum side, declaring 2001 a rebuilding year...
...idea, of course was to light up the eyes of all the voters (and reporters) who were just resigning themselves to the glum idea that Gore was going to fight his contest of Sunday's certification to the very last day (December 12, with an option on January 20) and the very last lawyer...
...proposed student center would boast--fast food, meeting space, a central location, e-mail terminals, games--but the idea of hanging out at Loker is a snide joke or sarcastic put-down. The proposals for a student center would only create another version of Loker Commons, perhaps without the glum basement feel and uncomfortable metal furniture, but equally unused...
...then a singer, deep into a nice little career, gets the ton-of-bricks gift of a hit song. It jets up the charts, seeps out of every pickup truck, is hummed in the check-out line at Wal-Mart. And suddenly the singer is struck by a glum vision of the inevitable future: 30 years from now, she'll be singing the same damn song in a lounge in Vegas or Branson...
...other words, High Fidelity, of which Cusack is also a co-writer and producer, is a comedy born of depression. Based on Nick Hornby's novel, High Fidelity takes the form of an intermittent monologue, at once glum and knowing, done directly to the camera. Cusack's Rob leads us in and out of various scenes from his sad past and his various current efforts to come to grips with it. This is a daring strategy: the potential for boredom is large. But Cusack is awfully good at calm desperation (or is it barely suppressed frenzy?). We await, with suspenseful...