Word: somberly
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...prime-time series. Ben Cross (Chariots of Fire) plays Barnabas Collins, the mysterious "cousin from England" who shows up at the Collinwood estate and sets about relieving various relatives and townspeople of their red cells. Producer/director Dan Curtis (who did the original show) has given the series a dark, somber look and a high-toned cast that includes Jean Simmons as the Collins family matriarch...
...when RPI forward Joe Juneau scored 36 seconds into OT to give the Engineers an 8-7 victory, the mood in the pressbox was somber...
...Spain!" drummer Louis Perez Jr. realized after a moment. "Wow!" Well, maybe they weren't quite so far away after all. Spiritually, Los Lobos has always dwelt midway between Los Angeles and Garcia Lorca, playing hard, dreaming darkly, finding a somber poetry on the sunny streets of the Mexican-American area the band called home. That's The Neighborhood...
Given this more somber assessment of a war's costs, it is no wonder that the parameters of a peaceful solution, a deal, are being explored afresh by some of those who would bear the brunt of conflict...
These stories are not as somber as their subject matter suggests. Kirn, who . grew up in Minnesota before heading east to Princeton and then a career in journalism, never condescends to his beleaguered characters. He allows them the dignity of feeling responsible for their mistakes and the virtue of hoping, against the evidence of their experience, that things will get better...