Word: somber
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...with emotions who don’t give us so much as a chuckle. Coupland’s heavy-handed approach to crafting emotive characters eclipses his will to satirize, and the two divergent intentions, proving themselves mutually exclusive, make “The Gum Thief” a somber failure.The novel’s setting is far more conducive to the latter aspiration: a chain of stores that supplies highlighters, printer paper, and rolling chairs is about as sterilized and as far away from the human condition as one can get. But here, it lacks...
...hand to chronicle the junta's brutal crackdown. He was joined in Rangoon by our own James Nachtwey, the world's pre-eminent news photographer. If Andrew's story describes the ecstasy of the uprising and the agony of its failure, Nachtwey's haunting images capture Rangoon's somber mood as ordinary Burmese try to go back to their lives after the crackdown...
...more somber voices come on scene. Robert B. Reich, a professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley (and President Clinton’s former Secretary of Labor) recently asserted in his Los Angeles Times op-ed that universities are often “investments in the lifestyle of the rich” and argued that donors should only be able to deduct half of their contributions to not-for-profits like colleges and operas...
...revisits the chorus from Led Zeppelin’s “D’yer Mak’er” and delivers another hit. As the smiling chorus opens up, Kingston appears, neatly dressed, true to his clean-cut image. The cheerful, cute lyrics surprisingly tell the somber story of a long lost love. The clubbers and sidemen swing along as Kingston sings: “Why’d you have to go-oh?” Scenes flash between a club stage and the streets where Kingston entertains not just one, but fifteen girls dressed...
...questions poured in from reporters during the press conference following Saturday’s game, the faces of Harvard players and Crimson coach Tim Murphy looked more and more somber. I knew, because I was sitting right in front of them, literally feet away. They had reason to be sad, too—it was the second final-minute loss suffered in three weeks this season...