Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rudimentary French vocabulary into epic malapropisms. Alex (David Marshall Grant), an Oberlin aesthete, takes to reading Hemingway aloud and composing songs with lyrics like "Paris is a teacher who has lessons to give/ How to love, how to live." The lovesick Laura (Blanche Baker) turns sightseeing into a grim obsession by setting out to visit every listing in the Michelin Guide. Of course these students, like so many before them, are not so adept at going native that they can successfully resist an occasional Big Mac attack...
Harvard gained momentum and controlled most of the half, but could not even the score. With snow coating the field, the chances for an offensive surge appeared grim. But when the booters took the pitch after a mercifully-shortened intermission, they displayed a storm of the their...
Tactics, maneuvers, the grim, tight-lipped faces of police trained to avoid eye contact, other moments when the barriers break down and protesters and police treat each other as people, the fences and chants and vigils and pickets and the Chain Link Fence, it all blends together. To the side of the road, 20 ducks in group formation leave a small pond and head into the forest. It looks like an affinity group...
...realist with a somewhat spooky sense of humor. The Floating Opera (1956) and The End of the Road (1958) appeared as slim companion pieces; they pivoted on the same philosophical question, i.e., how to impose values on a neutral universe; and both dwelt on despair as a source of grim comedy. But they were also set in a recognizable version of Maryland's Eastern Shore and populated with conventional characters. The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) changed course. An encyclopedic parody of 18th century English picaresque fiction, the novel was also a comic meditation on early colonial American history. From...
...events, after the poolside strategy session at Camp David we flew back to the capital, and in the late afternoon Nixon invited John Mitchell to join Bebe Rebozo and me for a cruise down the Potomac on the presidential yacht Sequoia. The tensions of the grim military planning were transformed into exaltation by the liquid refreshments, to the point of some patriotic awkwardness when it was decided that everyone should stand at attention while the Sequoia passed Mount Vernon-a feat not managed by everybody with equal success. On the return to the White House, Nixon invited his convivial colleagues...