Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such all-out attention is normally reserved for a national crisis. NBC says teen use of drugs and alcohol is just that: by age 17, 70% of all youths have sampled one or both. So the start of the network's season will be an antidrug special, half grim documentary, half musical extravaganza. The show, Get High on Yourself, also centers on the jingle, which is presented five times in pop, rock, acid rock, country and gospel versions. Warbling it among a huge cast will be 55 entertainment and sports celebrities, ranging from tuneful Olivia Newton-John to frog...
Fist punching the air in joy, McEnroe left the court cheered by his hometown fans. Borg headed for the lockerroom with a grim countenance and, once again, without the title he desires more than any other...
...accounts, their casualties were light-only one killed-while the armed forces, which did not reveal their true losses, sent 23 wounded to local hospitals. Over the first six months of this year, El Salvador's armed forces have admitted to 1,300 casualties, including 350 killed, a grim annual attrition rate of 12% for the 22,000 men serving in the army, the National Guard and other security forces...
...worked together in Michael Cimino's Deer Hunter, Cazale was fighting for the strength to say his lines. Streep had contracted to film Holocaust in Austria, where, as Cazale was dying in the U.S., she played a woman whose husband was imprisoned in a concentration camp. It was a grim experience, but, says Actor Fritz Weaver, who worked with her, "there was not one moment of self-pity. She has tremendous professional devotion." Back in the U.S., she dropped her career to stay with Cazale for the months that remained until he died, in March...
...History takes time," Irving once wrote. "I couldn't wait to grow up," he now says, remembering his years at Exeter. "I was a humorless kid. I was not an entertainer; I was very grim." Frankie Irving's view of her son is less harsh: "He was not an exuberant or overenthusiastic child, although I don't think it's quite accurate to label him as an introvert. I think he kept a lot of things to himself." Classmate Charles C. Krulak, now a lieutenant colonel...