Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meant by it is still a matter of debate among historians. Is it a comment on the vanitas of earthly possessions and power, the transience of those grave young faces and minutely delineated objects? A comment on the relativity of painting to the real world? A heraldic device? A grim play between the German words hohle Bein (hollow bone) and the artist's own name? Or, given the elaborate nature of 16th century wit, is it all of these and more? Few early anamorphic paintings that survive are as complete in their illusion as this one. One of them...
...raise (from $20 to $25 a week), married and settled down. Paradoxically, somewhere in the eye of the storm the college boy had found what he was looking for. Now, four decades later, in his scrupulous recording of chaos, Allen has at last connected literature and life, honoring the grim truths of dislocation on which all order must be predicated...
...moved up toward the hall, along with some of the other foreign diplomats and guests who had come to pay their last respects to Chairman Mao. All the world was there. Ahead of us were African women in colorful batik skirts; behind, a group of Peruvians. There were grim North Koreans, many in military uniforms, Rumanians, Yugoslavs and thin-faced Albanians, as well as wiry Vietnamese and diminutive Cambodians; all had black armbands and were dressed in their formal best-in bald contrast to the Chinese, who wore their ordinary jackets and pants of baggy cotton...
...flashes sometimes came as the cameras cut away from the candidate who was speaking to focus on the other's reaction. In the first debate, a grim Nixon, his features taut, avoided looking at his adversary, and his eyes darted warily about the studio. As Nixon spoke, a seemingly relaxed Kennedy looked directly at the nervous Vice President...
...intended to "strike terror into the hearts of people instead of arousing confidence in God" is contrary to the spirit of the New Testament. Misconceptions about "demoniacal possession," he reminded them, had played a "disastrous role" over the centuries. So they had. In Wūrzburg alone, in one grim year in the 17th century, some 300 witches had been burned for trafficking with the devil...