Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...embassy a year later, which killed a total of 23. Azahari is allegedly Jemaah Islamiah's chief bombmaker, Nurdin its treasurer. No one has discounted their involvement this time. "We will hunt down the perpetrators and bring them to justice," President Yudhoyono said. But his earlier prediction is a grim one. October has just begun. --By Howard Chua-Eoan. Reported by Maria Bakkalapulo/Bali and Jason Tedjasukmana/Jakarta
...relationships with men anymore. He often speaks of his "identity in Christ," and to him that trumps his identity as a gay man. A lot of Exodus youths seemed captives of their Christianity, caught in a hermetic loop of lust and gay sex (or masturbation), followed by confession and grim determination. Wilson is different--calmer, more convincing when he says he communes with God. He doesn't deny that he is still sometimes attracted to men, but he doesn't seem to be struggling. "I don't think God would give you a struggle," he says. "I think he brings...
...more - but it would be "woefully inadequate" if the bug were rampant, says Peter Curson, director of health studies at Sydney's Macquarie University. NIPAC says the supply is sufficient to protect up to a million of the country's essential service workers for about six weeks. The grim conclusion is that for the duration of a pandemic beginning any time soon, the vast majority of Australians won't see an antiviral tablet...
...design. The black and white artwork has been done mostly in pencil, with soft shading, capturing a grayed out world devoid of color. His simplified characters inhabit more detailed environments, in the classic European bandes dessinee style, but with Delisle's own spin. Visual jokes also lighten up the grim totalitarian atmosphere. One panel imitates a Sunday comics puzzle, depicting a police lineup of ordinary-looking North Korean citizens with the quiz, "Which one is the spy?" The answer, upside down, reads, "No. 6 because he is not wearing his official Kim Il-Sung or Kim Jong...
...Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art (momat.go.jp), this sweeping exhibition comprises work shot over 40 years by a remarkably diverse group of photographers. One common theme is Germany's sudden rise (and subsequent decline) as an industrial power; look out for the grim, 1960s factory pictures by Bernd and Hilla Becher (the oldest work on show) or the disturbing aridity of Hans Christian Schink's images of an empty autobahn (among the newest photographs displayed). Even when the subject matter isn't German?as in Andreas Gursky's vast photographs of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange?there is often...