Word: glumly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...posthumous assault continues in Richard Pollak's The Creation of Dr. B. (Simon & Schuster; 478 pages; $28), a glum prosecutor's brief that is the second life of Bettelheim to be published within a year. A prolix psychobiography by Anglo-French journalist Nina Sutton, Bettelheim: A Life and A Legacy (Basic-Books; 606 pages; $35), covered the same ground but more sympathetically...
...Thugs? Assassins? Instead the movie piggybacks its own little story, about the growing respect of the two women, onto the dreadfully edifying drama of the Sands campaign, including his election to Parliament on his deathbed. There's a power in these scenes that the rest of the film--a glum First Moms' Club--can't touch...
...gone for Danish novelist Peter Hoeg, who followed his brilliant thriller, Smilla's Sense of Snow, with a couple of mannered, too-clever fictions, A History of Danish Dreams and Borderliners, that found their balance somewhere between interesting and irritating. And the glum report here is that Hoeg's latest novel, The Woman and the Ape (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 261 pages; $23), is a disaster, part animal-rights tract and part millennial doom mongering, that looks at irritating from the underside...
...follow the rules of romantic pursuit. You're not supposed to call someone you've just met until two days have passed; it's uncool. Yet after getting a promising phone number, he rushes home to leave a voice message, half a dozen times, becoming more agitated or glum with each call--six degrees of desperation in three minutes...
...ambitious and multifacted studio project, drawing on influences ranging from Public Enemy to Issac Hayes. And if Portishead didn't manage to hammer the seductive groove from "Ike's Rap" into your head with their single "Sour Times" (the tune even provided background music for a suitably glum and nubile Liv Tyler's bicycle ride in this summer's Stealing Beauty) then Tricky did with the dark but luscious "Hell Is Around the Corner...