Word: glumly
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...cultivated patsy. Sister (Kate Reid) is a puffy rummy who sweeps about in caftans. Daughter (Lee Remick) keeps ricocheting home after unsuccessful marriages. They all congregate in the heavily furnished rooms of the house, congratulate or chastise each other for the considerable amount of alcohol consumed, and make glum speculations on their neurotic lives...
...life can be, if not exactly beautiful, at least a little magical. He and his little dog Bella take the kids out busking-singing and dancing and begging on street corners and for theater lines. This sort of activity has a certain ragtag vitality, and compares favorably with the glum life the kids lead at home. They are charmed, a condition that is not contagious...
...sound funny and much of it is not, but a good deal of it is. Chekhov's compassion for his characters' bruised hearts never blurred the amused clinical eye he focuses on their petty, self-deluding foibles. Chekhov frowned on directors who made his plays too glum and autumnal, and Nichols, with his agile comic flair, has certainly avoided doing that. He gets marvelous assistance from Nicol Williamson, whose Vanya is compacted with a mischievous, sardonic, self-mocking wit that not only defines his own character, but also makes a comment on the situation of everyone...
...passionate seeker after justice, repudiating a war he had helped plan, questioning the Great Society, testing the limits of liberalism. The napalm and the hungry children and the urban rubble had left their mark on this man. He had heard the chants of the demonstrators, seen the blank, glum stares of the unemployed, felt the smoldering anger that erupted at Watts and Detroit and Neward, Robert Kennedy, like many of us, searched for an answer...
...outlook for other yields is far less rosy. Cold weather and rain have destroyed much of Georgia's peach crop, and the prospects for rice and Midwestern apples are glum. Last week Farmer Morris Moeckly looked over his rain-swamped land near Polk City, Iowa, and wryly wondered if his biggest crop this year might be fish. About 60 of his 450 acres are still under water, and Moeckly noted, "It will be much too late to plant corn in there...