Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peculiarly bloodless demolition of a largely toothless group. On TV broadcasts videotaped in jail, glum leaders of Iran's Tudeh Communist Party confessed, one by one, to being Soviet spies. Haggard and morose, First Secretary Nureddin Kianuri conceded that since its inception in 1941, the party had been "an instrument of espionage and treason," and added that he had been spying for Moscow since 1945. After seven colleagues elaborated on the details of their treachery, Ali Amou'i, a ranking Central Committee member, warned Iranian youths not to follow his example and calmly declared the dissolution...
Other professionals agree with Vaillant's glum assessment. "We don't do anything adequately," admits Dr. Robert Millman, director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Service at Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York City. Explains Dr. Blume of the N.C.A., who is a psychiatrist: "Psychiatrists have been trained that alcoholism is a problem which comes from early-childhood experiences, but aren't taught how to treat alcoholics. They go after these 'underlying causes,' treatment doesn't work, the alcoholic gets worse and the psychiatrist decides that the disease is intractable...
...hear straight arguments from his aides. An avuncular figure, warm and generous to a fault, Reagan projects a peculiar quality of vulnerability. The White House staff and Cabinet members worry deeply when they have to tell the boss he is in trouble. One aide fretted for hours about the glum presentation that he was to make at one budget session. "I finally said the hell with it," he reports. "I decided if I couldn't tell it to him straight, I shouldn't be working here." Reagan was not visibly affected, but the aide still fears that...
...portrayer of loners is himself a loner who likes to be with people, but who says he has few friends. His pal Hotchner says that during an unproductive period in the late '70s, Newman seemed least glum bobbing around with him on Long Island Sound in a fishing boat they call Cocadetoro (in fractured Spanish, bullcrap). His bawdiness can be spectacular; and, says Susan, she and her sisters are constantly heading off raunchy stories with not-now-Dad looks flashed across the room. After years of complaining that Robert Altman's cheap white wine tasted like goat...
Salomon, 27, reportedly repaid the prince's hospitality by recounting fond recollections of her sojourn like this nugget: "Everyone was sitting around the swimming pool looking glum, when Andrew suddenly grabbed Koo and ripped off her bathing suit. Then he went to another girl and pulled at hers." Among her other dispatches from the isle of Mustique: the prince running around in the buff and attempting to jam a live lobster down the bathing suit of a young lady. Prince Charles, 33, meanwhile, is plagued by rumors about a "royal tiff" with his wife Diana, 21. Newspapers, after apparently...