Word: somberness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this evening, it may be too late." Indeed it was. Two days later, U.S. Ambassador John Gunther Dean closed the U.S. embassy in Phnom-Penh, and he and his small remaining staff were evacuated by U.S. Marine helicopters from the aircraft carriers Okinawa and Hancock. It was the somber, classic ritual that marks the end of lost cities and lost wars...
...whole opening seems like an orientation course. The plot that has been contrived to go along with all this Yakuza lore is not a wieldy thing either. It has to do mostly with layers of intrigue and betrayal that end when Mitchum and a single ally (the engagingly somber Takakura Ken) take on what looks like the entire criminal population of Tokyo. This face-off makes for a bloody and modestly spectacular finale, but it is long in coming...
...individually and blend to form a unified composition. Gorky chooses a different approach for the portrait of his mother. Here there are no discrete lines; the features are formed by altering the intensity of the charcoal. His careful regulation of tonality enhances the sullen quality of the woman's somber face with large, searching eyes and pursed lips. In another set of drawings, Gorky uses pen and ink hatch marks exclusively to create more abstract human outlines...
Speaking grimly at a crowded Detroit press conference, Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend repeated a somber theme that he has been sounding ever more urgently since the collapse of U.S. auto sales last fall. "We need leadership out of Washington, and in my opinion we're not getting it," Townsend said, calling for deep tax cuts and much more ease in monetary policy. He added: "We're in a very, very serious recession. The spiral is still going down...
There was an immediate uproar, and talk of a strike. But what became clear in that somber, three-hour-long meeting we had--the first one ever without Steve--was that the real hurt was not the wage cut but the fact that Steve had just decided to do it, without consulting anyone. We felt betrayed. We had always been one big happy family; all of a sudden Steve was asserting his authority over us as our employer...