Word: glumly
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...when I said Ti and Do had a lot of depression, I didn't mean they walked around with their heads hanging low and with a glum look on their faces. In fact, it was amazing how quickly they could appreciate why the spacecraft hadn't come: because they and/or the students or the world weren't ready yet. "SAWYER" Westchester County, New York...
During a photo shoot for this article, Lucas seems locked into a dour pose. "What are you so glum about?" the photographer kids him. "You've got the best toys in the world and a full head of hair." And yet there does seem to be a certain burden to being George Lucas. His workdays, when he's not at home writing the scripts for the prequels, seem murderously overscheduled. In his role as the sun at the center of the ever expanding Star Wars universe, he signs off on all the various new projects--"They ask me if they...
...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...