Word: grimness
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Finally there's the cover. It may not be a great way to judge a book, but it's not a bad way to move one. It shows a picture of a grim Adam and a buxom Eve (apparently using an early version of that double-stick tape J.Lo deploys to keep her dress in place), plus a Charlton Heston-y God. "The First Book of the Bible Graphically Depicted!" it proclaims. "Nothing Left Out!" plus "Adult Suprvision Recommended for Minors." That's catnip to at least one section of society. "I have a feeling," says Weil, "this book could...
...widows' colony in Tilak Vihar is a cheaply built and neglected cluster of homes, which were given by the government to hundreds of women and their children who survived what have become known as the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. But as the grim event's 25th anniversary nears at the end of this month, crime, addiction and prostitution have taken root in what was supposed to be a survivors' safe haven. Residents say this is because of the damage to the mental health of children who were witness to their parents' and siblings' murders and who grew...
...salaries of high-paid insurance executives. DeParle also said that in a White House meeting the next day, Ignagni repeatedly suggested that she was getting pressure from insurance CEOs who were alarmed about a drop in their firms' stock prices since mid-September, in part resulting from grim forecasts by Wall Street analysts. "She said her CEOs were really up in arms," DeParle said. For her part, Ignagni denies that she ever told the White House not to expect a report, and says she never discussed taxes on CEO pay with any officials. She said DeParle raised the issue...
These days, Roth is about as prolific as he is grim. His most recent novels have all dealt in almost expository detail with the subject of death and its inextricability from the spectrum of human experience. “The Humbling,” with its three-act structure and its otherwise bare narrative that alternates predominantly between dialogue with Axler and his inner-monologue, could essentially serve as an allegory for Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy. The entirety of the novel, from Axler’s time...
Some of the biggest jobs that Kenneth R. Feinberg has handled are best described as grim. The Washington lawyer served as the special master of the federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, which distributed nearly $7 billion to more than 5,000 victims and families of victims of 9/11. Three years later, he agreed to administrate the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund, set up for the benefit of victims' families in the wake of the 2007 Virginia Tech mass shooting. In his latest high-profile role, as the Obama-appointed executive-pay czar, Feinberg announced Oct. 21 that the Treasury Department...