Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more serious: an actor's gradual betrayal of political, not to mention moral, principle in return for professional advancement in Nazi Germany. The style could not be more surprising. One has come to expect material of this kind to be set forth in a tone of grim and stately foreboding. Instead, Mephisto, a Hungarian-German coproduction that richly deserved its Oscar as this year's Best Foreign Film, moves with a feverish back-staginess, a rushing, unbalancing energy that not only freshens one's historical imagination but finally forces the viewer to turn in on himself, trying...
...Barbay,. 26. a) Monte Cross had a 189 B.A. in 1903, b) Bob Buhl, a pitcher for the Braves, had no hits in 70 at bats in 1962. 27. Barry Bonnell. 28. Jim Konstanty--1950, Bob Gibson--1968, Vida Blue--1971, and Rollie Fingers--1981. 29. Only one--Bob Grim did it for the Yankees in 1954 (20 wins, 199 IP). 30. Dixie Walker drove in 116 runs with only nine home runs for the Dodgers...
...environmental movement, and John Hersey's Hiroshima. While Schell's book does not live up to Shawn's reverent assessment, and while it falters in its attempt to grapple with some aspects of the awful subject it addresses, The Fate of the Earth is a grim but riveting amplification of Hersey's pioneering introduction to that subject 36 years...
With costs up and prices down, farmers are facing a grim year...
...back across the desert, creating crosscurrents and general turbulence. Said 82nd Airborne Major John Dye: "Desert people have seen the phenomenon before. We had not, even though we jumped into this place four weeks ago on another exercise." The military investigation is expected to continue for several weeks. One grim lesson already has been learned-in the future, more complete wind measurements will be taken before those colored plumes are sent...