Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...decade ago, the 2.4-km stretch of Fifth Avenue that forms the western edge of the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, was the grim preserve of drug dealers, thugs and the demimonde. Not anymore. Thanks to the city's skyrocketing real estate market, some campaigning locals and a few pioneering investors, a once bleak thoroughfare of boarded-up shops and unsavory bodegas has been transformed into one of the hippest shopping and dining destinations in the Big Apple. Today, this section of Fifth Avenue, dubbed "Restaurant Row" by some, is luring visitors and locals alike with top-notch...
...casual bistros. Some latter-day sansculottes can't wait for the extinction of la cuisine snob. But since when does democracy mean a dictatorship of taste? If haute cuisine disappears, so will the whole web of specialist artisanal producers that it supports. And the consequences could be even more grim. The best of the best cooking, even at prices that risk inspiring a new French revolution, is much more than a form of self-indulgence. It is that, of course. But like fine art, haute cuisine is only concerned about its own ends, not conventional morality, status or popularity. Like...
...writes an online journal for the Denver Post, conducts a radio show for Sirius and hangs out, often with the press and his fans camped outside. "For me, he's all the best things about America: a bit of a showman, sure, but also friendly and likeable, without that grim way that some of the European athletes have," says Björn Frick, a fan from Bern. As for the partying, "that's nonsense. If he drinks, he's hardly the first ski racer to do it." Says Miller's fellow racer Marco Büchel, of Liechtenstein: "The World Cup wouldn...
...simple compassion?this story, like cave-in and child-down-a-well stories in the past, moved America to hold an electronic vigil. Soldiers are killed in Iraq, for instance, every week. They are no less brave, and their families grieve no less. But until the total reaches some grim round number, the stories recede from the front page and the top of the evening newscast...
...titular city. The rest is an intriguing study of the psychological toll of counter-terrorism, its cycles of violence and ethical implications. In other words, the Olympics as the backdrop for a discussion of the seediness of global politics and a depiction of man at his murderous worst. Pretty grim stuff. So given the cultural pervasiveness of the film and the limited amount of brain space the majority of us reserve for contemplation of the Games, the association with the Olympics most people carried away from this holiday season was likely a sad and gory one.Which is a shame. Because...