Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people are a remarkably qualified bunch, some having worked on mega-hits like Star Wars and Ghostbusters. But they could have used some ghostbusters on this set. The souls of the not-so-dearly departed in the movie are spirited away by annoying, ridiculous, and cartoonish little grim reapers, while the dear are called to the heavens by free-floating white Christmas lights. Many times blue screen outlines are visible, and Swayze, in motion, often looks like a laser-streaked rollerskater form the 1980 classic Xanadu...
...identified and located. Most are in proper scale. Many maps include capitals, mountains and rivers. Some are festooned with whimsical touches. Ethel Weld drew a school of fish, blowing bubbles, off Montevideo. Alice Gearhart fashioned the lost city of Atlantis in one part of her map and, inexplicably, the Grim Reaper in another...
...enterprises, like the manufacturing of the Trabant, are probably unsalable at any price. They may include major polluters like chemical companies and lignite mines. The outdated state steel company faces a bleak future since its products typically cost three times West German prices. The outlook for agriculture is also grim since farm prices in the G.D.R. are above even the inflated European Community level...
...trod tourist trail around the bloc, which leads to such places as the Ghetto Memorial in Warsaw, the Old Town Square in Prague and the neo-Gothic parliament building on the banks of the Danube in Budapest, the cities have some surprising things to offer. Even the region's grim industrial agglomerations are worth seeing, if only to judge for yourself how badly communism failed...
Limiting treatment is already a common practice in Europe. In Sweden, if the outlook for a baby is uncertain or grim, doctors make no effort to save the infant, report the A.J.D.C. authors. In Britain treatment in most hospitals begins immediately on all viable newborns, but periodically the prospects are re-evaluated, and if severe brain damage or death seems likely, efforts are stopped. That decision is made after consulting with the infant's parents...