Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover of TIME [Sept. 29] shows a grim-faced picture of Patty Hearst, and across it the word APPREHENDED...
...Grim Patty, Grinning Patty...
...week, as the conflict between left-wing Moslem and right-wing Christian factions exploded into yet another round of fighting. The strife that had intermittently rocked the country since April was spreading. The street battles were fiercer than ever, and the government seemed unable to halt them. Reflecting the grim mood was Radio Lebanon Announcer Sharif Akhawi, who said on the air: "Armed men are everywhere. All roads are closed. Blood maniacs are at large. We are losing Lebanon...
From the gloomy, overcast skies to the outlook for the game, things looked grim for Harvard at that point...
...newsreels to document lengthening breadlines, middlewestern duststorms and ragged transients riding freight trains through a despondent land in search of work. Mora uses his selections from Depression vintage cinema to juxtapose reality and fantasy as he pans the gloomy landscape that characterized the era. While he often contrasts the grim reality of life during the Depression with such fanciful films as Gold Diggers of 1933, starring Ginger Rogers, he uses similar clippings to demonstrate a haunting similarity between fiction and fact in the 1930s. Random scenes from King Kong (1932-33), for example, invite a comparison of the fright inspired...