Word: somberness
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...checked the new Politburo lineup during the televised funeral and interviewed Muscovites for their reactions to the change of leadership. Under a gray sky shimmering with tiny, faint snowflakes, and armed once again with his binoculars, Amfitheatrof watched Gorbachev, now the Soviet leader, atop the Lenin Mausoleum. "He looked somber but strikingly youthful and tough," says Amfitheatrof. But reporting on Gorbachev's accomplishments, life and health will not be Amfitheatrof's concern. He is leaving the Soviet Union for a new TIME assignment in Rome...
Although his most recent and more somber release. "The Razor's Edge," was less popular at the box office than his comedy films, Murray said he was happy with his first attempt at a serious role. Moreover, Murray said, the World War I drama "was a big success at Turkish Army bases...
...postponed. In Bonn, West German Socialist Leader Willy Brandt announced that a visit to the Soviet capital in mid-February had also been postponed at Moscow's request. So great was the climate of uncertainty in Moscow that foreign diplomats and journalists became nervous every time the radio broadcast somber symphonic music, frequently the first indication of a top leader's death. There were other signs and portents as well for Kremlin watchers: at week's end, for example, the long-running world chess match between Anatoli Karpov and Gary Kasparov was abruptly moved out of the House of Unions...
...quiet you could here a puck drop in Brown's Mechen Auditorium, where the Crimson sleepskated its way to a 2-1 victory before a somber gathering...
...decades Conable played a role in the political drama, and always the events of history whispered to him "to avoid the pressures of the moment" and consider the broader perspectives. In the capital, he became a ray of wry wisdom amid the constant drizzle of somber buncombe. He toughed his way into power like the Marine he was in World War II and Korea. He became the ranking member on the Ways and Means Committee. More important, he gathered a grateful flock of admirers, among them scholars, journalists and politicians...