Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...produced chamber piece, with a minimal set and an orchestra of seven. What is right with the show all involves just one or two people, notably the first fine rapture of the title character's illicit infatuation with Count Vronsky and the pathetic disillusionment that sends her to her grim fate. What is wrong could not be fixed by any amount of dressing up. Anna is an earnest, intermittently moving but never quite thrilling stage equivalent to PBSs Masterpiece Theater -- lovely gowns, precise elocution and ballroom dancing, with a stately pace, wayward comic intrusions and scant urgency...
CAPTION: THE GRIM AFTERMATH
...Johnson had to be shipped back to America, where he was consigned to a grim state lunatic asylum at Islip, New York. He never emerged from it -- or painted again. The last of his money paid for storage of the enormous, unsorted mass of Johnson's canvases, possessions and oddments. New York museums were not interested, but finally in 1966 the Smithsonian Institution in Washington agreed to house his life's work. Johnson was too far gone to register this; in 1970, still confined in Islip, he died...
...Hard to remember that at the end of the California primary in early June, the Clinton campaign was impelled forward by little more than a grim sense of inevitability. Clinton was physically drained from the gauntlet of primaries; the candidate's message of change had been pre-empted by Ross Perot; and the campaign structure in Little Rock had so many fancy titles and overlapping responsibilities that decisions had to be made by consensus...
...task of devising Eisenhower's escape route from Washington fell to naval aide Edward Beach. His assignment was made all the more difficult given the grim prognosis for Washington should it be hit by a Soviet hydrogen bomb. "It would not eliminate the Potomac River," says Beach, "but it would sure raise hell and dig a deep hole where Washington had been. We would have a deep lake there, so shelters in Washington would have been counterproductive. Even if you survived the blast, you'd probably drown." So Beach and others pressed their imaginations for alternate escape plans...