Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they can choose the latter alternative, and live in a run-down apartment in Cambridge and pay atrocious rent for it, and have a private life but little or no connection with campus life or the main body of Racliffe's students. Both these alternatives are a bit grim for those who want to have a private life and still retain close ties with the college; but in the past, these students have been able to choose "off-campus" buildings, where at least they are allowed more privacy, if not the right of cooking their own food. (They can also...
...money side, things were grim. The group occasionally had to work together in grocery stores, one buying something like a loaf of bread while the others tried to steal what they could. "We didn't have nothing to eat," Robbie explains. "And no money." One night, really desperate, Levon and Robbie decided to stick up a crap game with a pot that often ran to $7,000 or $8,000. With masks made of pillow cases they moved out on their mission ?only to find the game had broken up early and everybody was gone...
...scene shows a driver awakening in a hospital to discover that he is missing a leg. Stewart also demonstrates how alcohol retards reaction time and causes personality changes that impair judgment. He recites a litany of grim statistics on highway slaughter...
...hour and a half is a long time for any child-or beagle-to be amusing, and the whimsy that attempts to fill the time frequently falters. Charlie's grim pursuit of Best Speller status could use some comic-strip relief. And an interlude of Schroeder playing Beethoven's Pathètique falls into the old Fantasia trap, overly baited with pictorial gewgaws and kitsch...