Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rivaling those grim incidents in drama-and gruesome detail-was the continuing saga of Dutch Industrialist Tiede Herrema, 54, who was abducted near Limerick earlier this month by two I.R.A. extremists (TIME, Oct. 20). Since then, Herrema and his kidnapers have been the target of the biggest man hunt in recent Irish history. The Dublin government has steadfastly refused to meet the desperadoes' demand that three convicted Irish terrorists be released from prison. Kidnaper Eddie Gallagher, 27, and his woman companion, reported to be Marian Coyle, 19, sent police a tape-recorded message by Herrema, who said...
...final battle between the Christians and the Saracens is a novel affair that can only be called aero-choreography: dancers and acrobats pirouette, somersault, tumble and flip high above the stage in stylized but effective combat. All the while, Home, as Rinaldo, looks on from atop a grim, menacing war machine. It is a memorable image...
Another interesting facet of the Dartmouth team is that its members grow in size as the game wears on. Their faces contort with an incredibly grim determination, and their bodies swell to the point where they are impassible on defense, and unstoppable on offense...
...almost impossible to pick up a Spanish newspaper or switch on television last week without seeing grim photographs of dead policemen or pictures of coffins ready for burial. The images bore dramatic witness to the increasingly bitter and violent confrontation between the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco and its radical opponents. By week's end, eleven more Spaniards were dead. Thirty police officers and members of the Guardia Civil and 29 civilians have been killed since January...
...book's best scene, for example, a jealous and not-too-bright husband tries to find his wife at the J-Bar Korral by driving through it in a truck. Aurora's plain, long-suffering daughter is as poignant as her mother is flashy, and her grim fate at the novel's end seems out of keeping with all the earlier slapstick. Yet McMurtry's skill and compassion all but hide his incongruities...