Word: grim
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...when she went on calls with her father into the bush, where people would gather before sunrise to await them, Teresa saw what were the grim realities of life for most people in the country. To swim at dawn or dusk was to risk malaria; the slightest malady, left untreated, could become a death sentence. And she knew the menacing side of even a privileged existence under a dictatorship. Her father wouldn't let his criticisms of the government's repressive economic and racial policies go beyond the family dinner table. She went away to college in South Africa, where...
Many Americans who download movies and buy pirate copies insist that doing so has no effect on their legitimate movie-buying or theatergoing habits. But it would be foolish for Hollywood to ignore the grim prophecy of the music industry--where album sales have dropped 16% since 2000. Right now, the movie industry's guardian angel is slow technology. Seasoned downloaders on a broadband connection generally need eight hours or more to download a film. But 18 months from now, it may take only 2 1/2 hours, according to calculations by BigChampagne. Eventually, "if you can download a movie with...
...Stern biopic Private Parts and portrayed a cowardly orangutan in the remake of Planet of the Apes. So when he was approached to play Harvey Pekar in American Splendor, it seemed to be just business as usual--except that Pekar, the notably depressive writer of comic books about his grim life and glum times, was also going to be in the movie...
...involved more than 16,000 women, showed that the combination of estrogen and progestin not only raised a postmenopausal woman's risk of heart disease and breast cancer but also increased her risk of stroke and doubled her chances of developing dementia if she was 65 or older. The grim research results, on top of those released in 2002, have translated into plummeting prescriptions for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of Prempro (the company also helped fund the critical studies): the tally of 2003 sales of the hormone combo is expected to be down 50% from 2002 sales, which were down...
...quality projects are presented in the months to come. There are signs they would. Françoise de Panafieu, the fiery mayor of the upscale 17th arrondissement and an unyielding Delanoë critic, says she's always thought that a nice big building in her neighborhood could enliven the grim ride from the airport into the city. "We're not going to take just any tower," says Panafieu. "We need one like a jewel." That's what everyone says, of course. But Paris, where tall buildings have too often been carbuncles, deserves nothing less...