Word: glumly
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...generous and unwitting expense, your ex-lunch is probably, at this very moment, holidaying in the Bahamas and sipping on fruity cocktails. Meanwhile, back in that social epicentre and fair of wit and beauty so seductively titled in French, your coffee is cold. It stares up at you with glum foreboding, challenging you to consume. The courage is not within you. The newspaper is casually opened, and you avoid the glances of fellow patrons who negotiated their eating with more success...
...roommate Sameer and I both went overboard. If I was our fair city's most glum resident, Sameer took a close second. That two people with uniformly negative views about the same institute ended up rooming together defies the laws of probability. Maybe bad vibes are contagious...
ALIEN 3 IS SET IN A MAXIMUM-SECURITY prison at the far, forgotten end of the universe. This dark landscape bespeaks an ambition to rise above sequel status. So does a glum, distancing story, in which Sigourney Weaver's Warrant Officer Ripley, depressed and, yes, alienated, feels pretty much at home in the society of outcasts where her spaceship has accidentally landed. Eventually they join her in the fight against one of the big, nasty creatures she has unknowingly brought with her. But 29-year-old director David Fincher doesn't yet know how to scare us witless...
...down, but he is bitter." Fulfilling one of his official engagements, the man once dubbed Randy Andy alighted from his Jaguar at the Contemporary Dance Trust headquarters in Central London with a broad smile and a wave at the crowd of bystanders. It was in stark contrast to the glum visage the Royal Navy lieutenant commander and helicopter pilot displayed a day earlier as he drove between Sunninghill Park, his and Fergie's controversial modern mansion near Windsor Palace, and the Army Staff College at Camberley, 25 miles southwest of London...
Straight plays, especially on glum topics, are notoriously hard to presell. But Dorfman's meditation opened to a musical-size advance of $3.4 million, and mixed notices had no evident impact at the box office. Streetcar has amassed an impressive $2.4 million advance, despite having been revived on Broadway just four years ago. Randall's subscription-based troupe, which touts marquee names for each production, has somehow filled seats for three abominable revivals in a row, including last week's Master Builder...