Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being bled to death by the "Ted Sorensen strategy." Sorensen was the ex-Kennedy Administration aide who became Carter's abortive nominee for CIA chief in 1977. Of the Lake debacle, Sorensen (now an international lawyer in New York City) told TIME last week: "Been there, done that": "Looking grim and even more somber than usual, [Sorensen] read a vigorous 10-page rebuttal of what he called 'scurrilous and personal attacks.' When he had finished, he picked up another piece of paper and began reading from it. 'It is now clear,' he said, 'that a substantial portion...
...onslaught of pop psychology that has followed the grim discoveries at Rancho Santa Fe, so-called mind control experts have speculated that the fault somehow lay in the tech world, that something about the Web explained Heaven's Gate and the isolation of its members from the cushioning norms of society. Not true. The cult had been around for 22 years, and had seen better days. Most of its members were Web novices at best. Yet in some ways, the Web was made for groups like this. For it is not the culture of the Internet, but its utility...
Harrison's preacher father was kicked out of the house by her mother and grandparents when she was tiny, and she had almost no contact with him until she was 20. The household was grim. Grandmother would scream like a "scalded infant"; mother, who lived elsewhere most of the time, beat her daughter with a hairbrush. The child herself was unlikable. There is an unintentionally risible passage where she pries open the eyes of newborn kittens. The teenage years are marked by anorexia ("the dizzy rapture of starving") and bulimia ("I never taste what I eat. Sometimes...
...nation--the ECAC title was a given. No one would have expected that with only two regular season games left, the Catamounts (19-8-3, 11-6-3 ECAC) could finish anywhere from second to seventh place in the league. National title hopes are definitely looking grim for Mike Gilligan's squad...
...Korea: Desperate to resuscitate his standing with the South Korean people, President Kim Young-sam Tuesday gave a nationally televised apology for the scandal that has driven his approval ratings below 20 percent. Speaking on the fourth anniversary of his inauguration, a somber Kim said he was "extremely sad, grim and sorry" over aides' involvement in the bribery scandal. Kim also banished his son, 38-year-old Kim Hyun-chul. "What troubles me is that the name of one of my sons is talked about in connection with this case," Kim said. "As other fathers in this world, I consider...