Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THOUGHTS ARE ERRANT during exam period. The worlds of fact and doctrine ("Birds cannot actually fly; they are merely prodigious leapers!") collide with the grim fantasies spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulpher-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60 ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would...
...major and frustrating problem with his biggest subsidiary. With the exception of the critically acclaimed Hill Street Blues series, NBC has few standout offerings of any sort in its current prime-time lineup. Its market share of viewers has dropped by 8% in the past year. Says Bradshaw with grim gallows humor: "Our NBC profits are so much lower than the competition's network income that even if we became an average network there would be much profit potential...
...with flashing neon sign outside the window and the El rumbling past--the song and dance numbers become an escape, not only for Arthur and Eileen, but for the audience as well. And there's a lot to escape in Pennies from Heaven. For Arthur and Eileen, sexual exploitation, grim poverty, murder and rape are only a few things to run away from. For the audience, there's always the unappetizing screenplay and Ross's self-conscious and sometimes misguided direction...
...GRIM UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES released last week are more dismaying than shocking. The administration's harsh economic package of tight money and crippling cuts in social spending all but guaranteed that the nation's job-less rate would reach the 8.9-per-cent mark it did last month--the second highest monthly figure since 1941. But sadly, the job situation seems almost certain to worsen this year, under the weight of the President's new--but still oppressive--economic initiatives. Equally discouraging, America's ailing inner cities again seem first on the White House's chopping block...
...second drawing is of a bright orange skeleton with tears in its eyes and a grim mouth in an open frown. "I drew this after the death of my mother. I ate leaves then. That is why there is a tree in the picture...