Word: grimness
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...sumptuous they look more like oil paintings than photographs. On some of the canisters, white powdery corrosion oozes from cracks - the after-effects of regular flooding in their underground storeroom - creating geomorphic shapes in brilliant hues. The abstract beauty of the canisters is a jolting contrast to their grim origins. And to Maisel, that's the point. "It's about beauty and horror," he says. "It's a double-edged thing - seductive and disturbing...
What has kept the diaspora going on this grim cruise is the promise of President Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell), a bureaucrat who becomes leader after the government is vaporized and who believes she is a prophet destined to lead humankind home. What keeps the viewer going is the cat-and-mouse game with the Cylons, who can hide among and interbreed with humans. (The robots, at least, are sexy...
...basketball, and playing big defensively,” co-captain Niki Finelli said. “I think when our focus shifted to defense, our offense followed, and that is what allowed us to get out in front in overtime.” The Crimson entered overtime play with grim determination. It scored the first seven points of the stanza to pull ahead, 76-74. The Huskies refused to lay down without a fight, and promptly dropped a three-pointer with only three minutes left on the clock to bring them within two possessions of a win, 74-70. Then...
...look for hope. President-elect Barack Obama has indicated a willingness to discuss with Raul Castro the repeal of bans on Cuban-American travel and remittances-gestures that could ultimately lead to scrapping the trade embargo. For aficionados, that would be a welcome tonic for the grim times ahead. As Evelyn Waugh said, "The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana cigar...
...course, it'll take much more than a few weeks of populist outrage to challenge the purgatorial murk that defines India's politics as usual, as well as the grim injustices that shape its stratified society. But it is this Mumbai that shelters Dante's manuscript: a metropolitan home to all sorts of stories, still glittering with epic possibility for the thousands who flock here every year from all corners of this vast country, including the beggars and garbage collectors and tiffin carriers who continued with the many Sisyphean struggles of their lot in the days after the attacks. More...