Word: glumness
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...headlines. He has lost a few industry friends by making rude remarks about their career moves. In his 20s, Penn says, "I spent some time investigating the adventures of alcohol, like a lot of young American boys, and sitting around with a stupid smile on my face or being glum. One or the other...
...hopefully in early 2004." The outrage from unions? "This seems normal when you are undertaking an important reform program." All the talk of decline? The last gasp of an enervated Parisian "nomenklatura" who "have for years been writing things that have all proved to be wrong." But the glum state of France isn't that easily explained away, and Raffarin's incremental approach to reform - a 3% income-tax cut instead of the promised 5%; shelving vital health-insurance reform until next year - may not be sufficient to the task ahead. His goals sound radical: pension reform, rationalizing the health...
...share a language and an illegal war, mostly involving fairly mundane aspects of history and geography. Closer to Mexico equals more Latin music. But there are some more interesting factors—weather, for example. Jam bands require open, sunny fields and large parking lots for full enjoyment, while glum British rock only really makes sense in the context of the endless grey of London days...
...pictures of Palestinians rallying to Arafat's compound in Ramallah. "Ignoring him is better than making him the center of attention," said the official. There was little the State Department could do. After 2 1/2 years of trying--and failing--to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a glum official admitted, "We have no weight with the Israelis." Yet Sharon still fears the White House, so on Thursday night National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice called a senior Israeli official to try to get Jerusalem to back down from its pledge to eject Arafat. Washington has kept in constant touch with...
...brown. (Was it ever truly red?) We talked about a sitcom she was developing, and about the U.S. presidential race. When the bottle was empty she went off to have dinner at the Ivy with Channel 4 star Graham Norton; I got in a taxi, exhilarated but slightly glum, and went home. A copy of We Love the City by Hefner- a London-based trio somewhere between folk and punk - had just arrived from Amazon. I hit the play button and heard the first line of the first song: "This is London/ Not Antarctica/ So why don't the tubes...