Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their affair. But after a few Kaltman-coordinated state banquets, the chef protested that he had a certain reputation to maintain. "You just don't ask a chef to serve red snapper with the skin still on it and beets with cream all over them," he declared with grim finality after last week's dinner for Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan. And so, at week's end, he quit the Great Society for café society, probably in Manhattan, where a chef of renown can command impressive sums for preparing dishes never dreamed...
...horseshoes are for good kick-an old Western custom adapted to Laos-and the fliers need it, for in the past few months the Ho Chi Minh trail has undergone a grim transformation...
...Marcos Munoz, who lives in a squalid shack that he calls "something you would not let a dog enter." Another, Manuel Rivera, 52, the father of seven, works ten hours a day when he is not on strike, for the minimum wage of $1.25 an hour. He is a grim man whose only hope is for his children; he feels that the vineyard owners "make an animal out of me. They might as well put a leash...
...really terrifying potential of the Reagan campaign is that he may somehow be able to shift California's already unstable voting alignments and actually win the governorship. This would not only propel and appealing right-winger into the ranks of presidential candidates; it would also be a grim portent for the rest of the nation from its most American state
...thesis that most such cases stem from "lack of affection." Producer-Director Jerónimo Mitchell Melendez ignores complex social and psychological factors when he suggests that most addicts turn to the needle to tranquilize Oedipal anguish. But despite his sociological hokum, he projects a sordid milieu with grim documentary accuracy...