Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story, Teddy does not yet know most of these details either. All he has learned by now -- and McGinniss insists on Teddy's prolonged isolation from the events in Dallas -- is that J.F.K. has been killed and that his body and widow are en route to Washington. No other grim specifics. How then can McGinniss document Teddy's concern over Caroline's ignorance of facts he himself had not heard...
...between his teeth suggested a world gone up in smoke; the poncho he wore could have been a shroud. As Dirty Harry and a passel of creepy cowboys, Eastwood carried himself with the slow, wily grace of the living dead. Idealism had been blasted out of him -- only a grim irony stirred inside. Unforgiven, his Oscar winner and $100 million smash, was not a valedictory to the Clint persona; it was the latest verse in a career-long elegy to the faded American Dream...
...numbers are grim. Last year, in the most detailed study of the problem to date, the Wolf Organization of Cambridge, Massachusetts, analyzed data from a 20-year period and declared that the orchestral industry is facing a financial crisis of unprecedented proportions. Deficits of the 254 major orchestras the report traced have soared from $2.8 million in 1971 to $7 million in 1991, while operating expenses rose from $87.5 million to $207 million in the same period...
...mountain climbers the news over Memorial Day weekend was grim but not really surprising. At Yosemite Valley in California, the body of Derek Hersey, a renowned Alpinist whose unforgiving specialty was rock-wall climbing done solo and without the protection of belays, was found below Sentinel Peak. And on Alaska's Denali (Mount McKinley), descending unroped in darkness down an icy chute called Orient Express, Charles Cearley, 40, a mountaineer from Seattle, fell 3,000 ft. and died...
...hated his job. But, after three years at it, I didn't. I actually enjoyed the grim hours and thanklessness of being a sports editor. And to this day, that's what surprises...