Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge Senior Center supersedes the Pearl Street Center, which Ash describes as "a grim institution." Ash calls the center long-overdue, especially because many towns in the area have already established well-equipped senior centers...
These are grim times for the funny pages. Last year Gary Larson stopped drawing the Far Side cartoons, and now Bill Watterson is retiring Calvin and Hobbes. "I believe I've done what I can do within the constraints of daily deadlines and small panels," said the reclusive cartoonist in a letter to newspaper editors. "I am eager to work at a more thoughtful pace with fewer artistic compromises." Ah, well, there's always Peanuts...
...sprawling 18,000-acre work farm that has as grim a history as any prison in America, Angola might seem like an unlikely place to go looking for a good time. The fieldwork used to be so brutal that in 1951, 31 prisoners cut their Achilles tendons in protest. But today, thanks to a federal lawsuit and changes in prison leadership, the mood is about as upbeat as it can be in a facility that boasts watchtowers, razor-wire fences and a lethal-injection chamber...
...following might be just too horrifying and dangerous for some to depict in their minds. But the folks at the Harvard Model Security Council summarize it all in a grim joke: "China invades Taiwan. You are Taiwan. Your choices--swim, or go buy a Mao suit...
...grim year for celebrity couples in Britain, the latest marital casualty has prompted the most schadenfreude of all. Alas, the once golden union of KENNETH BRANAGH and EMMA THOMPSON is now asunder. Just before photos of Thompson, 36, holding hands with her Sense and Sensibility co-star Greg Wise, 29, turned up in the tabs, the thinking gossip's Charles and Di announced the split themselves, blaming the long stretches they spend working apart...