Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...build that an economic recovery was finally at hand, last week's news from the Labor Department came as a profound shock. The unemployment rate vaulted from 10.4% in October to 10.8% in November, its highest level since 1941. Some 12 million Americans are now facing a grim holiday season with no paychecks. Joblessness in the battered Midwest is reaching Depression levels: 17.2% in Michigan and 14.2% in Ohio. Congressional Democrats, who heard the bad tidings in testimony from Janet Norwood, commissioner of labor statistics, immediately attacked the White House. Representative Augustus Hawkins of California denounced the Administration...
Verdi: I would like Lady Macbeth ugly and bad; I would like Lady not to sing; I would like a harsh, stifled, grim voice. I would like Lady's voice to be diabolical...
...process of deflating hopes for airbags, the auto industry decisionmakers have, in effect, taken a stand in favor of death for perhaps 16,000 Americans and serious injury for many thousands more. Despite the extra revenue that policy reaps. I don't envy those executives who must face their grim responsibility each morning. I'd rather wake up to news radio...
While the subject matter may seem grim and violent, the movie's tone is actually quite gentle, because Schepisi and his writer, William D. Witliff, concentrate on the legend itself. The basic human passions of hatred, bloodlust and revenge are really only minor catalysts in the world of Barbarosa, there to fuel the ritual. The legend of Barbarosa is far greater, far more important than Barbarosa's actions, than even Barbarosa himself, as he has chosen his successor in Karl...
Frank Herbert's Dune books dealt with life, war and death on a desert planet. The White Plague (Putnam; $14.95) is set on earth in the grim present. Molecular Biologist John Roe O'Neill, an Irish American in Dublin, sees his wife and children annihilated by an I.R.A. bomb. Vengeance becomes his spur. In a home laboratory he invents a new disease and releases the plague in three nations: Ireland, because his family died there; England, because of British oppression; and Libya, because it operates training schools for terrorists. The disease spreads so quickly that life itself...