Word: somberly
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...Greens marched to the Bundestag through downtown Bonn. Some carried flowers; others dragged wilted trees, which they said were killed by acid rain. Inside, the new representatives again added a touch of color to the staid legislature. Their jeans and sweaters stood out against a sea of somber business suits, while their straight-backed benches sported an array of potted plants and flowers...
Most people's image of the Divinity School is one of somber, musty, religiosity. Indeed, the long walk up Francis Avenue to the Divinity School campus reinforces this image. One is struck first by the school's geographic isolation and then by its architecture; the looming Gothic presence of Andover Hall, the school's central building, evokes images of monks poring over their scrolls in centuries long past...
When the actual liberation ensues, reality and the quiet course of life gain the upper hand again. Things wind down to a slower pace, but for a brief period, the characters' lives have been woven into a mythic tapestry alternating somber patterns, with flashes of wild color. The patterns fade through time, but the colors grow ever brighter and more vivid in this marvellous cinematic folktale...
...even gloomier side to this already somber picture concerns safety. It is an unfortunate fact that as weight increases so does the accident fatality rate; everyone from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to the American Automobile Association agrees that the records of the high weight tandem trailers are particularly discouraging A DOT study done in 1982 demonstrated a disturbing 12.2 fatalities per million miles for tandems, considerably higher than the 5.6 per million miles for single trucks, and dwarfing the 2.96 per million rate for passenger cars. Despite these statistics, the ATA, which vigorously defends the safety record...
...what has four wheels and flies? Even then, the joke seemed pretty lame, but an appealing new response has appeared in the form of the album Red All Over by the group Busload of Nuns, featuring the performances of Marc Lowenstein '85 and Andrea Burke '85. The record's somber album jacket is, you guessed it, black and white, but the slyly absurd title is just a harbinger of the album's unexpected jabs at presence and pretension. Red All Over, like a musical rendition of a common old joke, ends up commenting on the failure of reason...