Word: grimming
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...first entrance in a figure-hugging scarlet dress, is great physical presence. Happiest lolling on her back on one of a succession of increasingly extravagant chaise-longues, she swivels her long legs like antennae. But when she speaks, her flat, ordinary delivery comes as a shock. Only in the grim final scene, when Lulu is reduced to working as a prostitute in a London cellar, does Friel let her natural Northern accent come through and seem suddenly energized. Too late...
...leave Bulgaria one day to find a better life in the West. "I am a writer from the world's backyard," he says. "The world doesn't know in what kind of corrosion we live here. There are no extras in our lives besides survival." He also brings his grim perspective to a live two-hour radio talkshow, Radio Pirates, which is shaking up Bulgaria's stodgy media establishment by examining for-merly taboo issues - like aids, homophobia and neo-Nazism - on which the government is seen to have failed. Karbovsky's message is unrelentingly bleak. "I gave this country...
...Death so widespread could bring the virtual collapse of a British agricultural economy already near bankruptcy because of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease, which originated in Britain. An Irish government minister went so far as to call Britain "the leper of Europe," an epithet that brought grim nods of agreement elsewhere in Europe...
Nothing in Allegra Goodman's previous fiction--two volumes of short stories and the highly praised novel Kaaterskill Falls (1998)--has quite prepared readers for the sustained comic exuberance of Paradise Park (Dial; 360 pages; $24.95). Her earlier work certainly wasn't grim, but it tended toward the polished and well mannered and resonant, a la 19th century British fiction. Not this time. Like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth before her, Goodman has achieved a breakthrough book by discovering and recording a thoroughly uninhibited narrative voice. Bellow found Augie March, and Roth hit upon Alexander Portnoy. Goodman gives the world...
...postapocalyptic scenario? Hardly. But this grim vision must cross Governor Tom Vilsack's mind when he looks at Iowa's demographic trends. The population, 96% white, is aging at an alarming rate, with younger people moving away and those who remain too old to work the farms and factories. By 2020, 20% of Iowans will be 65 or older. And even if every high school student were to stay, the work force would still decline 3% in the next five years...