Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sayer's jazz drummer father, Gerry, and Betty, her frazzled mother, are bottle buddies who happen to have three small children. When her parents split, Sayer's freewheeling childhood descends into a grim saga: she moves from suburb to suburb, school to school, always at the mercy of Betty's genius for sabotaging her own security and picking up the wrong bloke at the pub. Amid this culture of poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, alcoholism and fear, Sayer blossoms. She finds ways to escape the misery, if only in bursts, through poetry, martial arts and music. Friends drop...
...movie’s story is grim. The doomed protagonist Anakin understands that something is rotten in the Republic he lives in, but it’s easier for him to turn against the outsider Jedi order who are suspicious of the powers that be, than it is for him to turn against those powers themselves. The Republic’s increasingly undemocratic Chancellor, like many such leaders, derives his sway from his supreme confidence that his decisions are right (as opposed to the wise but far-from-omniscient Jedi master Yoda, who is constantly wrinkling his brows in thought...
...morning rush hour in Baghdad, and the emergency-room staff at Yarmouk Hospital is bracing itself for another grim load. Insurgent groups routinely mount their biggest attacks during the commuter crush: the heavy traffic guarantees them a high death toll, and the ensuing snarl-ups prevent police and military units from giving chase. For medical workers like Dr. Jalal Taha Emad, an emergency-room surgeon, each day begins with a foreboding of the mayhem to come. "When I am on my way to work, I sometimes look at people in the cars around me and wonder how many of them...
Unfortunately, these grim numbers have come to characterize life throughout the African diaspora—in the Caribbean, South America, and the United States as well. After sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean is the world’s most heavily infected region—with approximately 2.4 percent of the entire adult population carrying the disease. In the United States, AIDS is the number one cause of death for African Americans between the ages of 25 and 44, and black women are thirteen times more likely to contract the disease than white women, while black men are nine times more...
Aubourg’s presentation started on a grim note, and indeed ended on one as well, as she detailed the stunning lack of information, mobilization, and advocacy that had been conducted either by or on behalf of black people to confront the spread of HIV/AIDS. Galvanized by this dire set of affairs, I sought to make myself more knowledgeable about the crisis, particularly its political dimensions, and set about organizing something that could affect others the same way Aubourg’s presentation had affected...