Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dollar off the top. If you're at the horse races, they take about 15[cents] of the dollar before returning the rest of the money to the public. The casinos take something like a nickel or a dime, depending on the game. So lotteries are pretty grim from a statistical point of view. They have massive prizes because they have lots and lots of losers...
...trial, tentatively scheduled for December. Says Willwerth: "Having the chance to help right an injustice is a precious thing. I feel very lucky that journalism gives me that chance." Says Farley: "It was obvious this was a story that had to be written." When not dealing with grim reality, Farley turns to fiction. His novel, My Favorite War, concerns a black newspaper reporter. It's now in paperback...
...study, directed by Bucknell University Professors of Religion Mary Evelyn Tucker and husband John Grim under the aegis of the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions, is the culmination of a series of conferences which began in 1996, Tucker said. The last conference will be held in September before the October 20 presentation...
Henry Fool--what a guy! He materializes, like the answer to a dark prayer, in a Queens neighborhood where a sanitation worker named Simon Grim (the glumly funny James Urbaniak) is literally lying in the street waiting for...something. Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan, pinwheeling raffish charisma) has everything, and too much of it. He swaggers, smokes, guzzles beer, grabs life by the butt and gives it a fat smack. He makes abrupt love to Simon's morbid mother (Maria Porter) and bored sister (Parker Posey). He is, he tells Simon, an artist, the author of a huge, unpublished tome called...
Your chart showing Richard Mellon Scaife's support of various conservative causes [NATION, June 22] mentioned the political biography I wrote on the President, Boy Clinton. I must protest your description of it as an "attack book." That sounds terribly grim. Far more accurate was your reference a few months back to the American Spectator as a "gleefully anti-Clinton magazine" [Nation, April 13]. That captured the spirit. Somehow, political ineptitude can be as amusing as it is dismaying. R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR., Editor in Chief American Spectator Arlington...