Word: grimness
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...wonder T-shirts saying Go Sarah! started sprouting up by mid-afternoon. Beagley's own homemade batch of 150 McCain/Palin t-shirts arrived at 2 p.m. and were sold out within the hour, leaving Palin fans sifting in vain through piles of shirts that say Grim Reefer and Chicks Dig Me. In town, businesses have been putting up exuberant messages of support, as if Sarah! was once again on the high school basketball team, headed off to state finals...
DVDS Sal or the 120 Days of Sodom Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini; unrated; out Aug. 26 At the end of Mussolini's reign, four Fascists take pleasure in subjecting young villagers to the worst sexual degradation. Criterion has reissued this grim, notorious film--the last work of the gay Marxist poet and director--in a classy two-disc set, a death skull grinning from...
...Huang and her fellow graduates are facing China's surprisingly grim economic realities - some new, some chronic. Generating enough jobs for the masses of newly minted capitalists who emerge from China's university system has for years been a challenge. Last year, about one-third of college grads went jobless for at least six months after graduation, according to government estimates. This year's crop of 5.6 million grads - 740,000 more than last year - is the largest ever, and the tsunami of able bodies is washing into the market just as China's economy is faltering...
...future for the country is two futures: rosy and grim. Indian companies will buy more foreign businesses, and more Indian children will starve. In economic terms, India has become neither the U.S. nor Sudan, but something in between - a Latin American republic with an entrenched class chasm. Higher levels of crime and social unrest are almost certain to follow. For years or decades to come, we will not be able to talk of one destiny for all the people of the country...
...legal counsel, current chief of staff, and chief architect of the “New Paradigm” that has framed the country’s current approach to counter-terrorism. By his side sat the unctuous John Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer whose cherubic grin belies a grim view of human nature...