Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week that deluge came--and it wrought what may have been Latin America's deadliest natural disaster of the 1900s, a grim closing note to the continent's century. Fewer than 2,000 bodies had been recovered as of late last week, and a reliable death toll was impossible to calculate as soldiers and rescue workers continued digging near the northern coastal town of La Guaira, just across Mount Avila from Caracas. Still, officials said the toll would certainly surpass 5,000 and could even reach 30,000. "There are bodies in the sea, under mud, everywhere," said President...
There's a simple explanation for the traditionally high suicide rate at holiday time: Christmas movies. Just when we need a little seasonal perk-up--some of the cheerful idiocy that Hollywood is happy to market 11 months a year--the studios send us films about depression, corruption and grim death (this year, including Mr. Death). Santa's smile gives way to the rattling of Marley's Ghost. And all because Dec. 31 is the deadline for Oscar nominations...
...mention in his intellectually self-indulgent piece is the amount of evil that people would have visited on the earth without a doctrine of divine love to temper their actions. Imperialism and enslavement predate Christianity. Evil men use the handiest reason to justify their evil deeds. It is a grim tribute to the success of Christianity that so many villains, as well as holy men, have used the name of Jesus as the rationale for their acts. What was Price's motivation for "updating" the Gospels? The word of God is not first and foremost an intellectual exercise. DAVID ADAMS...
...stop there. I'd rather not contemplate the magazine. For me, over-exposure kills the final product and I can never bear to read FM on Thursdays. The glory of an occasionally door-dropped 24-pager dims in the grim light of a Crimson sunrise. I'm saving my FMs to read them next semester...
BEEF: WTO = corporate greed STUNTS: Grads of Ruckus "camps" scaled and banner'd Old Navy, paraded as corporate Grim Reapers...