Word: glumly
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...recounting, this glum and familiar little tale of obsession worked out in an act of paltry vengeance sounds thin and narrow. And so it is, at bottom. But the story is told mainly in a jumble of quick-cut flashbacks as the man waits in the hospital to see if the doctors can save his sometime lover. Interspersed in all this are interrogations of the psychiatrist by the detective and some peculiarly nasty glimpses into the surgery room, where un pleasant things are being done to the lady...
...That was glum news for members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, who gathered for four days in Washington last week for their annual meeting to survey the state of the world economy. Highlight of the meeting was an impassioned speech by World Bank President Robert McNamara, who retires next June after 13 years at the post. He pleaded with industrial nations to do more to ease the economic problems caused in the less-developed countries by seven years of soaring energy costs. Yet, ironically enough, as a result of the Middle East conflict the industrial nations...
Today the National Council of Churches likes to boast that Sunday schools are still the nation's biggest volunteer enterprise, with a total enrollment of 35.6 million (27.1 million Protestant, 8.5 million Catholic). Still, if Wesley were alive, he would be glum. Except for conservative churches like the Southern Baptists, who are doing well, Sunday school participation has dropped by almost 25% in the past ten years. "Mainline" Protestant churches-Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, have been worst hit. Says California's Institute for American Church Growth: "The Sunday school is in a desperate struggle for its very existence...
President Carter will send to Congress this week his midyear economic review, and the reading will be glum. As late as March, the Administration was gamely forecasting a 1980 budget deficit of no more than $36 billion to $38 billion and a 1981 surplus of $16.5 billion. But with unemployment soaring and tax receipts slumping, those optimistic targets now lie hopelessly beyond reach. As a result, the 1980 deficit is currently projected to be $60 billion, followed by at least another $27 billion in red ink next year...
...they are willing to turn the Second City into an Indy 500 junkyard. Too rarely, the movie relaxes to let some fine rhythm-and-blues artists (James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles) show what they can do; in the process they show up the two stars as glum shimmers, with no characters to inhabit and little feeling for the music. But the songs are mere interludes; the movie's gigantic "production number" is a ten-minute chase sequence that has Aykroyd and Belushi careering into Chicago with most of the local and state police force on their tail...