Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND LIVE/1975-85 (Columbia). A personal history and a summing up, this record shows that the Boss, better than anyone, knows both the grim secrets of America and the taproots of its pride...
...horse blanket for him) and on Saturday flew off to Palm Springs, Calif., for a week's vacation, but in the Oval Office the President kept a low profile. Perhaps the holidays would quell the furor over the Iran arms scandal, if only temporarily. But Iranscam offered only more grim tidings: continued inertia and infighting at the White House, increased squabbling between the Administration and Capitol Hill over how to clear up the mess, questions about the health of CIA Director William Casey and the emotional stability of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, and a wave of Yuletide firings...
...grim reign of Adolf Hitler in Europe had one ironic benefit for the U.S. Among the emigres, mostly Jewish, who fled to these shores to escape him were designers, filmmakers and composers who would sound a new note in the American arts, one that kept ringing long after the war ended -- names like Mies van der Rohe, Billy Wilder and Arnold Schoenberg. Alfred Eisenstaedt was among them. When he set down in New York City in 1935, Eisenstaedt, "Eisie" to his friends, brought with him a loose-limbed working method that would eventually set the tone for all of American...
...Santa Barbara, while Reagan spent the Thanksgiving holiday at his California ranch, Correspondent Beckwith interviewed Administration sources. "Their tone was grim," Beckwith reports, "and the overall mood was sad and depressing. Reagan's strength has been as a communicator, yet this time he seems unable to come up with the words that would satisfy people...
...affair acquires may influence how it is viewed by the American public. A scandal dubbed, say, Ayatullahgate or Mullahmess will be hard to take seriously, much less spell correctly. On the other hand, a silly name could offer some welcome comic relief in what might become an increasingly grim affair...