Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ground, being picked up by a boy and taken to a pencil factory. I don't know where it came from." Some movie folk didn't know where Eraserhead was going either; it was twice rejected by the New York Film Festival. Could it have been the picture's grim gray palette that put the festival off? Or the man with seared skin? Or the snakelike creatures in the radiator? Or the hideous mutant baby in the bureau drawer...
...bailout's relentless drain on the U.S. Treasury provided a grim backdrop to the stalemated budget talks. After 125 days of partisan wrangling, negotiators from both parties were nowhere near agreement last week on how to pare $50 billion from the 1991 deficit and $500 billion over the next five years. If a deal is not reached by Oct. 1, the government could face $100 billion of across-the-board budget cuts. While lawmakers contemplated legislation to avert that sweeping move, the White House threatened to veto such a measure in order to force a resolution of the budget deadlock...
...average week, two to three students are treated at UHS for alcohol-related injuries or alcohol poisoning, according to Dr. David S. Rosenthal '59, director of the University Health Services. Although one could claim that alcohol abuse affects only those who suffer from it, such rhetoric ignores grim realities. Rosenthal says that alcohol abuse is closely related to date rape, is the single largest contributing factor of injuries on campus, and helps increase the rate of sexually transmitted diseases due to indiscriminate...
...Oxford English Dictionary gives a quote from P. G. Woodhouse: "The flush on the little man's face darkened. `Are you trying to get gay with me?' he demanded dangerously." In 19th century England the term "gay" was applied--"with grim inappositeness," as one source puts it, to female prostitutes. Robert G. Davis...
After the stormy parliamentary session, Ryzhkov and a grim-looking Deputy Prime Minister Leonid Abalkin hinted that disaster would result if the Shatalin plan were approved without changes. Abalkin warned that trying an unsuccessful form of "shock treatment" might leave "the populace and the government allergic to the market idea for decades." Ryzhkov expressed concern that by giving free rein to market forces, the Gorbachev-Yeltsin group plan might set off a "staggering surge of prices, destabilize economic life and disorient enterprises...