Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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That's true in both war and politics, and it seemed to sustain White House officials, who watched all this with a mixture of grim humor and gritty optimism. They are comforted by the centermost core value in the Bush White House: that 9/11 changed everything. Bush's ratings may be slipping, but we live in a terrorist age, and 2004 may be the first election in decades in which polling patterns in May end up predicting nothing about November. "Am I worried?" asked a senior Bush official. "Of course. But we always said this was gonna be close." With...
...asthma attack; in Johannesburg. Called the Madonna of the Townships, the tiny diva was known as much for her hot temper, lesbian affairs and drug abuse as for her music--a pulsating blend of hip-hop, reggae and African rhythms known as kwaito that emerged from South Africa's grim shantytowns in the 1990s...
...took over a year ago, Arpey had little choice but to introduce radical therapy. The CEO, whose first job as a college student was stowing luggage for Delta, remembers sitting alone in a conference room a year ago, exhausted from negotiating with flight attendants and facing American's grim future. The company had lost $1 billion in the first quarter of 2003. "We had no cash, no flight attendants' deal, no access to the [financial] markets, no real understanding by our employees or Wall Street of where we needed to take the company," says Arpey, 45. Forget about the short...
...slightly different rhythm can be detected in the foreign offspring-in-emotional-peril movies coming to theaters now. In the elegant and understated Strayed, Andre Techine uses a grim, largely offscreen rumble--of war. A soldier's widow, Odile (the unimprovable Emmanuelle Beart), and her two children, 13-year-old Philippe (Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet) and 7-year-old Cathy (Clemence Meyer), are trapped, unable to move on a refugee-clogged road from Paris in 1940. When their car is destroyed, a mysterious youth, Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel), appears and leads them to a deserted chateau...
...With Saddam's Consent The grim scenes of kidnapping and violence in Iraq [IRAQ, April 19] are a depressing contrast to the rapid rout of Saddam Hussein's troops after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in the Gulf War of 1991. Not long after the end of that conflict, however, Saddam was already reasserting his power, as we noted in a March 29, 1993, article. This piece also revealed his barbaric wartime behavior, as detailed in a U.S. government report...