Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despite their criticism, Berliners were grateful that the opera was there, mindful that a mere three miles to the east, near the Brandenburg Gate, grim East German Volkspolizei stood guard over a smaller but far less attractive "Wailing Wall"-the eight-foot barrier of concrete and barbed wire that has turned West Berlin into a ghetto of freedom...
GARY: THE GUNS OF NAVARONE. Here, gents, is a war film that has absolutely, yes, absolutely, every gimmick you've ever longed for in a film about G.I.s-plus-Limeys v. them Nazis: U-boat chasing, cliff scaling, partisan risings, grim Yanks, suave Britishers, fanatical Greeks, detestable Germans (one nice German), broads, spies, traitors, explosions -- well, we mean, you name it, this flick has it. It also has Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn plus scores of ex-German general staff members. Evenings...
...must to all model Hollywood couples, the living end came last week for restless Actor-Director José Ferrer, 49, and homebody Songstress Rosemary Clooney, 33. After bearing five little Ferrers in eight outwardly placid years of marriage, Rosie called on that grim reaper of cinematic matrimony, Lawyer Jerry Giesler, to file for divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty. "This will come as a surprise to all our friends," wept Rosie, "but it was no sudden decision on my part. Joe and I have had a difference of opinion as to a way of life, and for the children...
...grim for the Renaissance, try it at 10, when Professor W.J. Kaiser gives his "Thought and Literature of the Renaissance" (Hum 115) whose reading list squeezes in Boccaccio, della Mirandola, and Castiglione in addition to the two Ms snagged by Gilmore. Ranging further afield, Professors Ingalls and Rowland are waiting to introduce the civilization of India--Asoka to Khrishna Menon--in their Soc Sci 116. If these countries fail to entice, Merle Fainsod, back at his old listening post, continues his love-hate relationship with the Soviet dictatorship (in Gov. 115); and Professor Homans continues his simple love affair with...
Much of the story's impact comes from its style. It is a skaz (a tale), a form particularly associated with Leskov, in which the events are told by a fictional narrator in his own idiom and manner. The method gives those events-especially when they are grim-an ingenuous drama, as if a child were holding out a severed head and saying innocently, "Look what I found...