Word: grimness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...gave those Republican Governors a tour of the White House, he showed them an 1868 painting--The Peacemakers, by George P.A. Healy--that portrays Abraham Lincoln at the end of the Civil War, meeting with his generals about how to occupy the South. The President pointed to the grim visage of the Great Emancipator and said, "Look at the lines of strain on his face." As bad as things get, Bush doesn't let such marks show...
...series The Kingdom, by filmmaker Lars von Trier, and in part on his own long hospitalization after he was struck and nearly killed by a van in 1999. The resulting series is sometimes, draggily and dully, just what you would expect from King. Artist Peter Rickman (Jack Coleman) sees grim visions after a paralyzing accident takes him to the hospital, founded on the site of an 1869 mill fire that killed scores of child laborers. But it is also sometimes fresh, wry and even wacky. Rickman's first visitor from the other side, as he lies broken bodied...
Metayer's cohort, then called the Cannibal Army, was once said to lend its grim services to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Today it makes up the most violent component of a growing opposition that threatens to destabilize Haiti. Now dubbed the Artibonite Resistance Front, the group took control of Gonaives, Haiti's fourth largest city, a week ago by attacking the main police station. All that remains of it and the adjacent prison is a few concrete walls...
...spent nearly $1 million of company money renovating luxury apartments, passing the charge on as repairs to the corporate headquarters; Petersson and Sp?ng are also being investigated for taking $42 million in bonus payments that allegedly weren't authorized by the board of directors. The story took on a grim tone when Jan Wangärd, a Skandia executive who reportedly benefited from the controversial bonus program, hung himself in a Stockholm hotel. Petersson has been questioned twice by police, most recently last week. "The accusations are false," says Christer Brantheim, a lawyer for Petersson. Mats Willman, lawyer for Sp?ng...
...times MTA2’s spiteful rhymes and often tuneless tunes uncomfortably evoke thoughts of slavery—functional, slow and relentless like dirges, with scarred chants serving as choruses. There’s little time for bling-bling hedonism; at best Banner and clique wallow in their grim depravity with a smirk. Crunk ballads (!) such as “My Lord” are overshadowed by workhorse tracks like “Crank It Up” and the “Like A Pimp” remix. If the first Mississippi: The Album was cathartic and empowering, then...