Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mephistophelean Rene Bazinet stands at the center of the spectacle. This wiry, pale emcee appears as five different characters throughout the evening, including a demonic schoolboy and a hunchbacked grim reaper and a mischievous harlequin. In a particularly bawdy acrobatic scene involving a gigantic feather bed and a swing set, he appears in striped tights, a harness top and a winged hat that makes him look more like an underworld gogo dancer than a traditional ringmaster. A master of vocal effects, Bazinet plays an imaginary game of catch with the spectators and effortlessly incorporates an audience member into a hilarious...
...family entered South Africa to a grim reception. We departed on a similar note. On the day we left, I read in the newspaper that an American student had just been killed in a township. The student had devoted herself to helping the cause of South African Blacks, and had been escorting a few of her fellow Black students home when she was approached and savagely killed by several youths. Her murderers belonged to one of the leftist groups committed to promoting discord for their own agenda. Ironically, they accused her of being a white racist as they killed...
...reconciliation scene at the Democratic Convention waited until Ted Kennedy ) stiffly took the stage for a loveless handshake and a grim photo...
...There, last week, the most dramatic moment occurred in the initial match, when Short ran out of time, could not make his 40th move within the required two hours and lost to Kasparov. This outcome provided some grim satisfaction to purists; one of the reforms initiated by Kasparov's and Short's P.C.A. was to condense playing time in order to make championship chess more palatable to casual spectators...
...begins a remarkable, brooding detective thriller by Peter Hoeg, a Danish writer whose work is new to the U.S. The story's grim background is Denmark's exploitation of Greenland, the bleak northern island given its bosky name by Erik the Red, an early real estate promoter who hoped to attract settlers. Most recently, Danes have mined and exhausted Greenland's vast reserves of cryolite, a mineral used in the refining of aluminum, while giving only perfunctory and highly patronizing attention to the culture of the native Inuit...