Word: grimness
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...mining the same emotional vein in Murphy's Romance, the new movie she made in Arizona with James Garner. It is about a divorcée who moves to a small Western town to take over a horse farm with her twelve-year-old son. But wait, this is no grim battle with mean local bosses or foreclosing bankers. "It's a lighter film," says Director Martin Ritt, who worked with Field on Norma Rae. "We had a great time. Sally is a natural at doing comedy." Aha, back to Gidget maybe? "This is not like that at all," contends Ritt...
...Though there has been more medical, physical and psychological speculation about Reagan in these past days than ever before, there is no way to chart the future. In hindsight it appears that John Kennedy's persistent back troubles sometimes plunged him into dark moods that were reflected in his grim assessments of Soviet power. Eisenhower's string of illnesses surely drained him of the vitality so essential in the presidency to press on against critics and adversaries. Many of the modern problems of race, environment and cities began to emerge during his tenure, and he did not pay full attention...
...world financiers ever wanted to stay awake nights worrying in the past two years, they could always lie abed wondering about a sudden crash of the dollar that might lead to international economic chaos. That grim scenario came a bit closer to reality last week as the U.S. currency skidded to its lowest level in a year. From a peak reached in late February, the value of the dollar has declined an average of 14% against major currencies and 24% against the British pound...
...most Americans, whose lives have not been touched by the epidemic, the announcement brought home for the first time the grim reality that AIDS is spreading unabated, inevitably striking the famous and the familiar. As of July 22, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta had recorded 11,871 U.S. cases, including 5,917 deaths. Most alarming, the total number of cases continues to double every ten months. So far, 73% of those stricken by the disease have been homosexual or bisexual men, 17% intravenous drug users and 1% hemophiliacs. But the rest of the victims are people from...
...anyone stricken with a full-blown case of AIDS, the prospects are grim. The virus directly attacks a group of white blood cells called helper T cells, which serve as one of the main coordinators of the immune system. As the disease progresses, these defensive cells are almost entirely destroyed. The immune system collapses, and victims fall prey to one infection after another. Ordinarily mild diseases become dangerous, even fatal, and many patients develop rare cancers, severe neurological disorders and brain damage...