Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overall, the most obvious slackening has been at dinnertime. The lunch trade is holding steady in many of the better restaurants, but even the midday period is grim in the funereal precincts of Wall Street. At Eberlin's, a financial-district favorite, volume is off 10% to 15%. For major hotels, the banquet and convention business offers slimmer pickings because companies are sending fewer people on combined business-pleasure jaunts...
...left, but where they once were a cornucopia of good, smutty fun, now they are mainly a refuge for the pitiful and lonely. Where Lily St. Cyr and Pepper Powell once performed with lavish eroticism, Abba E. Bond and her Gaza Strip and Terry and her Privates now perform grim, grotesque imitations...
...Venus' finger by a nervous bridegroom brings her to life, and love is reborn in a cold climate. The cast of characters, Burgess has explained, is drawn fondly from stock theatrical figures: "The boneheaded gold-hearted country squire in plus fours, the pert and resourceful servant, the grim but reliable chatelaine, the sweet guileless young lovers, the comic Anglican clergyman." Only a writer who can bring such scarecrows to life would be willing to proclaim, let alone admit, that his characters come out of a fusty stage wardrobe. In The Eve of Saint Venus, this miracle is performed...
...orders of these terrorists... A psychiatrist kills a young girl for sexual kicks, murders a dozen patients with an ice-pick, castrates a hundred men. And they give him another million appropriation." The newspaper also conMankind; on the other, he envisions tained five cartoons ridiculing psychiatry, one showing the Grim Reaper carrying a scythe labeled "psychiatry" with the caption: "From Russia...
...while stoned, the near death of a 5-year-old New York girl who innocently munched an LSD-laced sugar cube from the family refrigerator, the suicide of Art Linkletter's daughter Diane, 20, after a bad trip. Now a new chapter has been written in the grim folklore of LSD. Somebody slipped some acid into the potato and corn chips at a swinging singles party in the Marina del Rey section of Los Angeles, and nearly 40 of the 200 guests tripped...