Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Cape Canaveral last January to the thunderous roar of Challenger's five rocket engines. They returned last week to a respectfully silent ceremony on the Cape's runway where their shuttle mission, if successful, would have landed. The quiet was broken only by two disparate sounds: the somber cadence of tramping boots as an Air Force honor guard gently placed the seven flag-draped coffins aboard a Lockheed C-141 transport plane, and the cheery song of a nearby flock of mockingbirds...
...feelings cards, pastels and calligraphy are popular, and rhyming is considered gauche. Carolyn Bean features wistful, somber messages: "Occasionally, like now, I get so blue . . ." and "As I get older, I truly appreciate the depth of your commitment to me." Russ Berrie cards of Oakland, N.J., stress quiet optimism: "Things have a way of working out" and "Where you've been . . . doesn't matter," a heartwarming message in the age of herpes and AIDS...
Jhabvala plays such encounters chiefly for comedy, although her pampered foreign women also face the prospect of paying dearly for their delusions. The stories dealing with Indian heroines are more somber. Westerners can decide to surrender to India; natives do not have the choice. In The Widow, Durga has been left comparatively wealthy by her late husband, an old man whose marriage to her was arranged when she was young. Feeling youthful still and strangely restive, she develops a yen for a neighbor boy, who returns her affectionate remarks with the demand that she buy him a motor scooter. This...
Just how large the criminal business is that RICO must combat was redramatized last week by the President's Commission on Organized Crime. Wrapping up 2 1/2 years of work, the 18-member commission released a somber report warning that organized criminals have made inroads into virtually every major U.S. industry. They drain the nation's economy through tax evasion and the higher prices caused by their involvement in legitimate business, the commission concluded. The impact could be an extra .3% in consumer prices this year. Altogether, organized crime may take in as much as $106 billion...
...compounded by the men's ability to dance in unison and in rhythm with the percussion that plays throughout. McKayle intersperses painful expressions of work in the chain gang--throwing fists into the air, clasping hands and stamping feet on the floor--with a flirtatious duet that lightens this somber piece that ends with a gunshot and a man's death...