Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parasite race that has for 4,000 years made a practice of attaching itself to a host country and sucking it dry....I am beginning to sense that I am not welcome here." In 1939, the headline reads "Hitler Neutralizes Polish Menace: Europe relieved as Germans Lift Grim Specter of Polish Tyranny from Continent." In 1944, Our Dumb Century reports that Hitler interrupted his speech to say "'All I'm saying is, give peace a chance.' He whispered, his voice choked with emotion, 'War is over, if you want...
...dough was certainly not plentiful. After a hard day's work of jumbo boxing and dunking-booth dunking, a certain first-year--me--wondered if there were any sumptuous delights in that magnificent haven called the "Fried Dough Booth." Alas, it was not to be. A large, grim-faced man stopped my innocent inquiries with the fatal words, "Sorry, fella, you should've come earlier...
What to Look For Full to the brim with gratuitous violence, this bleak portrayal of the souls within the men of today seems grim and hopeless. Instead of being disturbed by the grotesque and twisted idea of fight clubs, society desperately grasps onto it with enthusiasm. As for the cast, Pitt and Norton both have strong experience with dark, disturbing films (Seven and American History X respectively), and Fincher has proven his original directing abilities in movies such as Seven and The Game...
...good or not. Two hours of gazing at Brad Pitt and Jared Leto is reward enough for many young ladies. However, from the standpoint of critics, I predict mixed reviews, some praising its original and harsh social critique while others are disturbed by its perhaps unnecessarily grim and graphic depiction of the fight scenes...
...wars go, the Balkans conflict makes for pretty grim TV--few pictures of bombings-in-progress, sparse information from NATO and no Scud Stud. With the burden of infotainment resting with the news correspondents, we review their performances...