Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep scissoring in the dark, hoping that this triage or that would appease the board. Finally, Hard Target won an R rating with about three minutes lost: a high-impact shot here, a memorable death there. The board might have thought it was protecting teenagers from grim Guignol, but Woo's admirers believe there could be no violence in this film nearly so mindless as the violence done to it. The rating system was preserved, the film's intricate internal rhythm destroyed. "My work is like my child," the mild-mannered director says. "If too many things...
...didn't think it was a perfect bill, but it was the best compromise that we could get." Two hours before the final vote in the Senate, Democratic Senators Thomas Daschle of South Dakota and Harry Reid of Nevada walked into Kerrey's office. Both looked grim. When they emerged half an hour later, neither was smiling. Asked if they were confident that the President had the votes he needed to win passage of his plan, Daschle said...
...initial shock, the death of basketball star Reggie Lewis last week seemed a grim parable of the seductive power of professional sports -- of an athlete so devoted to a game and its rewards that he would distort medical truth in order to keep playing. It also seemed an object lesson in the relativity of medical truth, and in the perplexities -- perhaps even the questionable ethics -- of equally eminent specialists making highly public, completely contradictory diagnoses. The details that emerged in the days after Lewis died, however, suggested a medical and emotional situation that was both more complicated and more subtle...
...about 2015 they will be very angry with those who did not abort them. It would serve our nation very well to channel the energy being expended in San Jose, Philadelphia and Jackson, Miss, towards the problems of those who can already see the light of day and the grim realities it brings...
...last frail supply links to Sarajevo were cut off. The city is essentially without fuel, without water, without electricity, without medicine and with barely enough food to last another week. No longer do residents talk of the future. There is only today, and today, for everyone, is a grim struggle for survival. "It has never been this bad before," says Rosa Tutundzic. "I used to have hope, but I can no longer believe we will be saved. It will just go on until we are dead...