Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar has narrative lapses, jerky editing and confusing fantasy sequences that look like Ken Russell outtakes. Brooks' idea of style is to shoot Theresa in bright sunlight when she is being a good schoolteacher and in grim shadows when she is bedding down with her rough pickups. Though the movie was shot in color, the director's vision acknowledges only blacks and whites...
...easy way to judge the Administration's argument that the most probable alternative to Geneva is more bloodshed. Of course, talk of war is as much a part of the daily Middle East vocabulary as those diplomatic code words. Syrian President Hafez Assad's contribution last week was particularly grim. "Naturally, I don't want to negate the chances of the peace altogether," he said in Damascus. "But I still say if we [Arabs and Israelis] don't go to war again, it will be a miracle...
...When I telephoned to check about a vacant apartment in another neighborhood, the landlord hung up on me as soon as he heard that I was Turkish and had three children." The grim living conditions in the ghettos foster not only broken homes but also a climate of violence-murders, knifings and muggings...
...universal use of the lifesaving solution is that the poorer countries, which need it most, have difficulty obtaining sufficient medication and training enough nurses and technicians to administer it. Thus, while effective sanitation can prevent the disease, and treatment for a near-certain cure is available, cholera remains a grim threat...
Tall and stooped, at once courtly and disheveled, Lowell presided with a grim conscience over American intellectual life and willingly intervened in politics, appearing in demonstrations against the Viet Nam War and campaigning for Eugene McCarthy. Norman Mailer, in The Armies of the Night, recalled him during the march on the Pentagon in 1967, "virile and patrician," with "a Cromwellian light...