Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, the-book-as-novel is convincing. The story moves through the grim and grotesque too quickly to think much about credibility. The narrative is powerfully direct, painfully simple, and only rarely heavy-handed. With steely-eyed, unflinching confidence Rawls sets it out with little moralizing and less existentialism--and it burns. There is a macabre concentration on the horror, the strange, spell-binding discovery of some of the inhumane dark places of our humanity. Cold Storage is a grim, intensely-created thing, focusing with iron nerves on subjects we don't want to know about...
When Harvard's Mark Harris, the junior forward who scored 16 points, fouled out with 3:02 remaining and the Crimson up by only four, the prognosis looked grim. Then captain Bob Allen (at 1:39) and Fleming (at:49) hit clutch one-and-ones from the free throw line to keep Yale just out of reach, The Elis' Anthony Curry hit a desperation jumper at the buzzer to close the final margin to one, but McLaughlin was already putting on his jacket and heading toward the locker room celebration...
...surprisingly, bank officers are beginning to draw grim little circles around those areas of the globe that they no longer consider good credit risks. Reports TIME'S European economic correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer from Brussels: "In black Africa, no nation with the possible exception of Nigeria, an oil exporter, is still considered a good credit bet. Apart from Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, and Malaysia, all of the Far East is out. In South America, only Brazil and Venezuela, another major oil producer, can still count on jumbo loans. For most of the developing world, the borrowing spree is just...
...trouble that she used to take for her faithful, the marvelous dinners that she gave for them alone ... a sort of official representative in Paris of all foreign artists, was not long in making her appearance, by the side of the exquisite Princess Yourbeletieff, an aged Fairy Godmother, grim but all powerful to the Russian dancers...
...evidence of this graceful, knowing, unpretentious new biography, it is hard to think of Misia as grim, but as usual Proust captured the essential truth. For 40-odd years she was the godmother of European artists. She came to maturity in the Belle Epoque, "a beautiful time for those who were privileged," and she brought zest, taste, a tart tongue and plenty of money to a role she never tired of. If she was a climber, the mountain was Parnassus...