Word: grim
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When the Nazis occupied the city, the party was over. The grim mood of the times is reflected in paintings like Jean Dubuffet's Building Fa?ades of 1946, where graffiti-like scratches are clawed into a thick black surface, and in sculpture like the Swiss Alberto Giacometti's attenuated and isolated figures. Death's heads entered Picasso's work. Playwright Antonin Artaud spent the war in mental hospitals undergoing electroshock therapy. His Self-Portrait of 1947 almost destroys its flimsy paper with savage pencil lines. It's in a private collection, so here is a rare chance to see this...
Although the film chronicles the actual sit-in with great detail, it is interspersed with testimony from workers, statistics about wages and stodgy images of Harvard from the past. It follows the PSLM protesters as they rush into Mass. Hall and are confronted by grim, heartless officials. The omnipresent camera tracks down then-Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 and captures him brusquely dismissing the protestors: “I have office hours every two weeks.” It sympathetically watches Frank, a custodian, perform his work as he tells the audience, “I call...
...scene featuring the two Winthrop House seniors indicted for larceny was truly theatre of the absurd, familiar to me only in that it was vaguely reminiscent of the O.J. Simpson trial. The same mud-brown paneling, uptight officers, grim-faced suits. It was a moment of such epic soap-opera proportions that one half expected close-ups or an outburst from an aggrieved Hasty Pudding-ite in four-inch heels. Where was the bad theme music? Judge Ito? The white Explorer? The New York Post headline? But there were no such unseemly antics in yesterday’s episode...
...grim prospects for post-Arafat stability may be one reason why Palestinians and their Arab allies aren't the only voices in the Middle East worried about the Bush administration cutting ties. Israeli doves are increasingly alarmed at the prospect of Sharon getting carte blanche to pursue a strategy they believe will void all prospect of Israel living at peace with its neighbors for the foreseeable future. Even foreign minister Shimon Peres is reported to have recently lamented privately that he's unable to criticize Sharon's actions in the face of silence from the U.S. Previously, Israel could rely...
...done little to advance their cause politically, militarily or diplomatically. The attacks have hardened Israel's resolve, alienated the West, brought harsh repression down on ordinary Palestinians and put the goals of statehood and Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza even further beyond reach. There's a grim consensus in Palestinian society today that the al-Aqsa intifada has achieved little for their people - but that doesn't stop the militants who flip the equation by asking what will be achieved by yielding now, in the absence of any Palestinian gains. And Yasser Arafat, pinned down...