Word: grimness
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Despite what the title may imply, this play’s primary inspiration is Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with a political twist. The drama follows the story of a young, undecided voter as he visits the lighthearted past, sectarian present and grim future of voting in America. Only the Adams House Drama Society could give us something this original and unorthodox. Friday, Saturday 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m. $4 students, $3 Adams House residents. Adams House Pool Theatre (13 Bow Street...
...poverty and, in the early 1980s, the occasional mortar round fired across the Cambodian border by the Khmer Rouge. "Some days we'd be sitting down to dinner and the mortars would explode in the village, blowing out our windows and doors," Jaa says. He escaped these grim realities by viewing the films of Chan and Lee on outdoor screens at temple fairs. "It was powerful for me to watch," he says. "What they did was so beautiful, so heroic. I wanted to do it, too." Jaa practiced in his father's rice paddy or, when bathing the family...
...possible sanctions. Some diplomats are worried about what they call their nightmare scenario: an air strike by Israel against Iran's nuclear facilities, to which Washington would acquiesce, inflaming anti-U.S. feeling among Muslims. Says a British official: "There's worry that a crisis is looming." On that grim prospect there is also wide agreement...
...House of Representatives, to Labor's 56, and possible control of the Senate. The collapse was rapid. At 7:45 p.m. - even before Mark Latham's election-night function in outer-western Sydney had warmed up - Labor shadow immigration minister Stephen Smith was admitting the outlook was "Grim, with a capital G, Trouble, with a capital T." Confident right up to the close of polls, morose Labor supporters watched a fourth election slip away. Just two hours later, Latham conceded in a brief and despondent speech. "Tonight was not our night, not the night we were hoping for," he said...
...first five minutes. Within minutes of polls closing on the mainland, it's clear Labor, which needs an extra 13 seats, has lost two - Bass and Braddon - in Tasmania. By 6:45, the count is showing a swing to the Coalition. Before partygoers sample their first spring roll, the grim faces of Labor heavies on the big screen herald a night to forget...