Word: glumly
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...number who subscribe to this "index of alienation" has climbed steadily, from 29% in 1966 to 44% in 1972 to 58% today. The University of Michigan's Center for Political Studies asks opinions on similarly glum statements: "The Government is pretty much run by a few big interests ... Quite a few of the people running the Government don't seem to know what they're doing ..." The alienated again rise sharply, from 19% in 1964 to almost 60% today...
...flood might not come for 75 years. Others supported the idea of an expensive levee. It was the Kickapoo that had the last word. On the Fourth of July weekend in 1978, the river rose up and smashed through the valley, knocking down buildings, ruining crops and adding another glum watermark to the town's soggy history. Damage to the business district reached half a million dollars...
...Change of Seasons, Anthony Hopkins plays a glum college teacher having an affair with one of his students (Bo Derek, who is splendid-looking, of course, but whose blankness of eye and manner makes one long to see her admission test). When his wife (Shirley MacLaine) discovers this lapse, she immediately takes up with a young carpenter (Michael Brandon), whose brain has been dulled by an overdose of Consciousness III. Soon they all edgily repair to a country house. There they scandalize the married couple's daughter, who drops by with some problems of her own, and Derek...
...eyes of doctors and loved ones, Siebert, 41, is a virtual vegetable with no hope of improving. She cannot talk, does not recognize her family and has the mental age of a twelve-to 18-month-old child. This glum report is disputed by Jane Hoyt, 36, a self-styled nursing-home reformer who befriended Siebert four years ago. She says that the stricken woman can mouth the Lord's Prayer and play tic-tac-toe, and she insists that Siebert is progressing. Incensed by the August agreement, Hoyt obtained a temporary restraining order that directs St. Mary...
...Nazi motorcyclists and an orangutan named Clyde, who steals the show with animal athletics and a vocabulary of obscene grimaces. Eastwood, who can be a compelling, charming screen actor, seems content here to watch the other performers pamper their eccentricities while he stands off to one side, as glum and immobile as a Teamster's ashtray...