Word: grimness
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...Rahman's lyrical prodigality was evident from the score for his first film: Mani Ratnam's Roja, the tale of a woman whose lover is kidnapped by terrorists. Through this grim political parable, Rahman laced some spectacular melodies that not only serve the drama, they create their own?as in the duet ballads Yeh Haseen Vadiyan and Roja Janeman, which first are grounded in recitative, then soar into celestial melody. The soundtrack parades the composer's gift for alchemizing outside influences until they are totally Tamil, totally Rahman. He plays with reggae and jungle rhythms, runs cool variations on Ennio...
...small salary increase is consistent with this year’s uncharacteristically low endowment payout, and the ongoing staffing reductions across the University. Given this grim context, salary negotiations for faculty may operate under the shadow of financial strain for the next several years, according to Mendelsohn...
...International terrorism has adopted a different modus operandi. It has become decentralized without giving up veneration of Osama bin Laden. He is an icon of revenge for perceived atrocities against followers of Islam. The ongoing attacks in Iraq and the Madrid train bombings are grim indicators of the changing face of terrorism. Kailash Mehta Mohali, India...
...Marine-led assault on the city was intended to deliver to the enemy fighters their long-delayed reckoning in what the U.S. billed as the latest critical offensive in its campaign to "liberate" Iraq. But even for those accustomed to the unending drumbeat of sorrow in Iraq, the grim scenes of urban warfare in Fallujah, where hundreds were said to have died, took a heavy toll--and the news for the U.S. in the rest of Iraq was not all that encouraging either...
...last week--and Governing Council members started talks with al-Sadr--insurgents had expanded their tactics of terror, seizing, according to a masked spokes-man, as many as 30 non-Iraqi hostages. As the U.S. scrambled to find and deploy sufficient troops to suppress the metastasizing revolt, there was grim talk that, in the words of Larry Diamond, a former senior adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), "the second Iraq war" had begun...