Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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MOVIES: I, Robot feels retro; The Inheritance redefines grim; Garden State makes Jersey seem cool...
...meet Christoffer (Ulrich Thomsen), the sun is, literally and metaphorically, perpetually shining on him. He has a sweet, sexy relationship with his wife, an actress named Maria (Lisa Werlinder), and he owns a chic, prospering restaurant in Stockholm. Best of all, he has escaped his oppressive family and its grim, old-economy business--a Danish steelworks. But then his father commits suicide, leaving the business a mess, with Christoffer as its only possible savior. As he takes up his task, The Inheritance recounts the shutting down of his spirit--or should we say the flowering of his inner monster...
...time. In the new Baghdad, it's a life-or-death journey just to travel the 3 1/2 miles from his home in the elegant Mansour district to his office in a dicey part of the city near Tahrir Square. And when he does go to work, he encounters grim suffering he never expected to see. On a recent weekday a woman, swathed head to toe in a black aba, tugs her wailing child up the pitch-black stairs to the clinic. As usual, the electricity is out. She feels her way along the lightless hall until they reach...
...years, international health experts have pointed to Thailand as a rare success story in the global battle to contain the AIDS epidemic. The situation looked grim for the country in the 1980s, when doctors reported that sex workers in Bangkok's famous red-light district were beginning to test HIV-positive. There were dire predictions that the virus would spread rapidly through the population, infecting as many as 4 million of the country's 65 million people...
...young farmer from the county of Daehongdan, where the potato crop has purportedly doubled. It reads, "Following the Example of Daehongdan, More Potatoes for the People!" In a country where at least a million people are believed to have died of starvation under Kim's regime, there is a grim irony to these rousing celebrations of team spirit and bountiful food. One poster, for example, portrays a North Korean youth amid a clutch of baby bunnies, along with the rallying cry "Let Us Breed More Rabbits...