Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world's first deprogrammer. This among other muscle-bound links to contemporary life is definitely intentional. What is not is the flatness of Schwarzenegger's performance, the dullness of his odyssey. Instead of the giddy lift one sometimes obtains from improbably heroic adventures, one gets a grim endorsement of the uses of primitive mysticism and brutality. Conan is a sort of psychopathic Star Wars, stupid and stupefying. -By Richard Schickel
That assertion was by no means justified. But it did serve to underline a grim fact: as long as military and diplomatic conditions did not force Argentina to a different assessment, the ugly battle at the bottom of the world might be very hard to stop...
...will take more than soothing personalities to improve the grim outlook for Harvester's finances. Says Richard F. Rossi, an analyst at Merrill Lynch: "The company will not turn around just because McCardell is gone. His departure will not make the situation between the company and its creditors any different at all for the time being." The big question that remains at International Harvester is whether the bankers will give the new management enough time to try to save the firm...
...helped, if anything, to sour enthusiasm for its massive military shopping spree, and the apparent drift towards East-West confrontation of some kind was sufficiently unnerving to provoke the first large scale American public discussion of nuclear war in two decades. For whatever reason--and certainly the reliably grim economic news is a prime factor the support for increased defense spending which arose in the late '70s has almost wholly dissipated. A recent poll found that a clear majority of the respondents favored significant cuts in Reagan's military program...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill and the President were involved in a second round of negotiations that concluded last week-not on the budget but on theology. O'Neill phoned Deputy White House Chief of Staff Michael Deaver to warn that the situation was looking grim. Deaver then convinced the President that policy had to be changed. An order went out through Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger to Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, who obediently bowed: a Navy attack submarine initially christened Corpus Christi (which means "body of Christ" in Latin) will be renamed, probably City...