Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Force, a happy 50th, and some condolences. Empathize civilian-style along with Jimmy Stewart in 1966's Flight of the Phoenix. It's Lifeboat in the desert, or maybe a grim, post-war Gilligan's Island, with Stewart as an old-dog Skipper forced to yield to the "push-button world" and the ice-cold young German (the Professor?) who embodies it. You'll wince, maybe proudly, when Stewart tells us that "the little men with the slide rules and the computers are going to inherit the Earth." And then consider that this week, the whole thing could have been...
...commentary on the celebration of the country's 50th anniversary of independence from the British, Salman Rushdie provides a brutal but honest assessment of the grim political and social scenario in India [WORLD, Aug. 11]. I often wonder what has wounded India more--200 years of colonial rule or 50 years of pseudosocialist government by lackluster, dishonest politicians. RAJENDRA K. ANEJA Sao Paulo...
...wide-angle view is grim. A decade of bungled opportunities and misguided investments has left Apple in an intractable negative spiral: lower market share means fewer developers, which means less software, which means fewer customers, which means still lower market share. Not pretty. Even the belated decision to license the Mac OS to clonemakers only drained Apple of hardware revenue...
...popular gathering place here in Casablanca who goes by the name of Rick... No, Ted, no last name is available to us. It's just Rick. You know, like Madonna or Roseanne... Now Rick and the young woman are exchanging a few words... They both look very serious, almost grim, probably talking about the increasingly uneasy international situation... I can only make out a few words, something about 'a hill of beans.' That may be some kind of code...
...life could serve not only as inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's next screenplay but also, perhaps, as a very grim morality tale for those who would do anything for a sleeker look. On July 4, a man supposedly named Antonio Flores Montes, thought to be in his early 40s, was found dead in his Mexico City hospital room after having undergone eight hours of cosmetic facial surgery and liposuction to his midriff. Bruised and punctured, Flores' corpse was flown by chartered plane the next day to the northern Mexican city of Culiacan, where it was laid out at the Capillas...