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...look so glum. After all, you've just been spared the first page of this article which I wisely decided to trash because it made little sense. The rest of this article will be perfectly coherent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Green | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

...early 20s, however, Colin is becalmed and resentful, a teacher of dull-eyed children in a coal town, a survivor of a glum and perfunctory love affair. His only vivid feeling is rancid hatred for a placid younger brother who accepts a miner's life as normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Exit | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

These assorted travails have left a visible mark on the Chancellor. His much-admired confidence now seems more like grating arrogance; he seldom flashes his famed toothy grin, and often appears wan and uncharacteristically glum. Says an aide: "He is deeply troubled, nothing goes right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Facing a Helmut Problem | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...were a Polish joke, while Ryan O'Neal, as General James Gavin, looks as if he is about to inquire, "Tennis, anyone?" like a summer-stock juvenile. As a general whose troops are surrounded almost the minute they hit the drop zone, Sean Connery is suitably glum. Liv Ullmann and Laurence Olivier play long-suffering Dutch locals caught up in all this boom-boom in humble, long-suffering style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Clumping Around Market Garden | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...Mark and Sam saw a lot less of him--he was always in the library. And when he emerged from the downstairs reading room in Cabot, all he did was complain about his work. Sam and Mark tried to persuade him to drop a course, but he just looked glum, talked about his future, and repeated his by-now well worn threat about jumping out the window. That spring, Todd took another heavy course load--only four courses this time, but even harder ones...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Nothing a few games wouldn't cure | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

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