Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose Great Galloping Gottschalk was a hit last year, has a moody new piece, Estuary; once again the performances, by Van Hamel and Patrick Bissell, burnish a dull concept. Van Hamel, a dancer of wit and grace, has an even murkier assignment in Jiri Kylian's Torso, a grim, roughhouse pas de deux with Clark Tippet...
Winthrop recalled that period in his 25th reunion report: "The next three years were years of liquidation and grim years on Wall Street." The ensuing New Deal legislation, Winthrop wrote, "cut private bankers down to size...
...words of five white Harvard undergraduates who have lived in South Africa paint a grim portrait of the future of that nation. Gerald M. Benatar '86, Gerald M. Fox '86, Nita Lelyveld '86, Mary J. Menell '85, and one junior who asked not to be identified all agree that change, possibly bloody change, will come. But they disagree on the roles which Harvard and the United States can and should play in causing that change to occur...
...witness started out jaunty and self-confident but eventually appeared grim and embattled. Struggling to defend his competence and ethics, he looked as though he were facing a master interrogator - say, Dan Rather when he was on CBS's 60 Minutes. Instead, Rather, now anchor of the CBS Evening News, was the co-defendant being grilled last week in a Los Angeles Superior Court chamber, in a $30 million suit for alleged defamation of a doctor at a clinic accused of insurance fraud...
...grim announcement to Parliament, Defense Minister General Magnus Malan described the bombing as "a cowardly deed in the Communist war being waged against South Africa." At week's end no organization had claimed responsibility for the explosion, but South African officials blamed the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.), an antiapartheid group that has launched such attacks on urban centers. In the past, the A.N.C. has chosen symbolic targets of white rule, such as police stations and government buildings, but has apparently tried to avoid the random killing of civilians...