Word: grim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baker's writing voice still darkens easily, though not often, from genial irony to grim satire. Every few weeks a sour mood fills the "Observer," as it did some time ago when Baker discussed the advantages of a return to public hangings, with the additional suggestion that if the society went back to killing people for the crime of murder, perhaps it should again cut off hands for theft and notch the noses of incurable double parkers...
Despite the grim example of California, most Americans still refuse to believe the crisis is real. According to the latest Gallup poll, completed in early May, only 44% of the public think the nation's energy situation is very serious, about the same percentage as two years...
...scores, crippling the imagination, undermining national literacy, and layering American homes with an attention-numbing narcotic. The charges go way back. They were first raised by long-suffering parents and teachers who simply watched the TV viewing of children under their care and came to what they felt were grim, self-evident conclusions. Then the argument shifted a bit to the amount of violence on TV and its cumulative effects on society. To both counts the TV networks reacted as they still do: Life is complex. There is no proof. It's a free country, and people get what...
...Gaylord Perry and Ray Washburn 79)Jim Konstanty 80)Wilbur Wood 81)106 82)Darold Knowles 83)Joe Page 84)Bob Grim 85)Rollie Fingers 86)Moe Drabowsky 87)Rollie Fingers 88)Koufax 89)Pee Wee Reese 90)Mr. Laffs...
...this dire saga, Polsky has fashioned a grim drama about the existential anguish of last resorts. The play is fascinating even when its revelations are most appalling. Presented at off-Broadway's Hudson Guild Theater, Devour the Snow differs markedly from the spate of terminal situation dramas now in vogue in that it does not possess a moment of comic relief. Polsky means his play to be harrowing...