Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while Reagan carried a revolver; he thought that Communists were out to wreck his career and might even threaten his life. He is incensed now that some writers are taking a revisionist view of the period. Says Reagan, his mouth a thin line and his face more grim than he ever lets it get in public: "The rewriting of history that is going on about that era is the biggest fairy tale since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The idea that a little band of freethinkers was being persecuted by the motion picture industry! They had a pretty good...
Perhaps the grim story of chemical poisoning will finally bring people to the realization that they are nature and not a kind of mysterious, superior essence placed in nature to make it "better...
During the late '50s, the firm of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes had planned a huge corporate office mall along Route 128, designed for companies like the First National Bank of Boston. The future of downtown Boston seemed grim. Its economic base was about to sprawl into the suburbs. But after Logue completed Government Center, First National changed its plans. Its corporate headquarters now stand as a landmark on Boston's skyline, and almost all the big corporations of New England have followed suit. Their headquarters are now congested into Boston's downtown rather than fragmented around its suburbs...
...These grim images have brought Hejduk from an "architecture of optimism" to an "architecture of pessimism." But he has not despaired completely. His recent work illustrates his attempts to create a new context in which to operate. Hejduk feels that architects must stop to consider what people need, in the most profound sense. Intending to make his work "social and political, not in a cheap way," Hejduk wants to see if architecture can become a narrative for the affairs...
...case rested almost solely on a series of "confessions," which the defendants repudiated, testifying that they had been extracted by torture. Thus when the four generals of the military tribunal in Seoul pronounced their verdict last week at the end of the month-long trial, it was a grim, foregone conclusion: South Korean Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung, 54, was found guilty of conspiring to overthrow the government and sentenced to death by hanging. His 23 codefendants, a group of Christian ministers, university professors and students, were given prison terms ranging from two to 20 years...