Word: glumness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Outside of the formal discussions, I met with friends and found that the Soviets are very glum," Doty said this week. "They already have an accumulation of many problems; plus, they can't do much about them until a successor to Brezhnev comes on the stage...
...unclean, dirty. "We're all looking for someone to love," says a New York woman, a freelance artist. "In this world our chances seem so slim anyway. Then you add herpes and you think, 'Why should anyone want me now?' " A doctor in Amityville, N.Y., says the same glum view has invaded the ranks of teenage herpes sufferers, who come into his office, cry and say, "No one will ever want to marry...
...business has gone from bad to worse around the world. In the U.S., more than 30% of the industry's 450,000-man work force is now unemployed or working short time, with steel mills operating at their lowest level since 1938. The situation in Europe is equally glum. During the past two years, there have been strikes in Britain and riots in Belgium and France as a result of job losses. The European steel industry ran about $2 billion in the red last year...
...British Catholic hierarchy was glum about the likelihood of a papal visit at a time of war, but a great deal was at stake. Very quickly, the British hierarchy launched a shuttle diplomacy effort designed to counteract the advice it knew the Pope was receiving from the ever cautious Curia. Archbishops Thomas Winning of Glasgow and Derek Worlock of Liverpool flew to Rome and at a hastily arranged luncheon in the Pope's private apartments, made a carefully prepared appeal, but it was soon clear that they were preaching to the converted. "I am convinced myself," the Pope said...
...help from writers who lost their sense of humor in their labyrinthine plot. The story is illogical and is without the kind of inventive startlements that make logic irrelevant to pleasure. Director Sidney Poitier is always cutting to some chase or other, all of which he handles with glum professionalism. But it is disheartening that a star team with the potential brilliance of Wilder and Radner had to take off on such an ungainly turkey...