Word: somberness
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...blackened wrecks of buildings, eerily smoldering in spots for days afterward, reminded onlookers of cities that had been carpet-bombed in wartime. Said Scanlon: "It looks like Berlin in 1945." Others thought of the awesome spectacles of nature. Lamented U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas after a somber tour: "This is a miniature Mount St. Helens...
VIDEO GAMES FLATTEN BOREDOM. They project the banality of the assembly line onto two-dimensional electronic hallucinogenics. Their garish griminess is as dipped in materialism as the somber sootiness of the factory. Like factories, they furnish the means of subsistence--a numbingly overspiced gruel of colorful flashes, bangs, whooshes, titillating, not nourishing the senses. Their predictability flexes but little the imagination. Punching in the clock; pressing the start button. Filing form A and tightening bolt C evokes the practiced and repetitive pacing of the player's dot across a screen. Punching out the clock; GAME OVER...
...carnage, the U.S. toll was 2,403 dead, all eight battleships in the harbor crippled or destroyed, 188 planes demolished and another 159 damaged. When Pearl Harbor survivors and military brass gather next Monday for an anniversary ceremony at the Arizona memorial, the mood will still be somber: 1,102 of the dead were entombed in the sunken hulk of the battleship over which the memorial stands...
...tone was somber as he spoke about the crisis that he insisted was generated by practical problems, not by any protest against the Communist system. Echoing Walesa, Jaruzelski declared: "We don't live in medieval times when people fought wars over ideas. To pull the country out of the crisis it is in, we need stability, law and order, and security. We'll pay special attention to law and order, and we'll do everything necessary to preserve...
...have great action. On their first disc, I Just Can't Stop it, they asked P.M. Thatcher, with propriety, "Please stand down, Margaret, stand down". This summer's Wha'ppen is one of the best releases of the year, discarding some of the cande-party for some somber, intricate, personal Anglo-Jamaican Salsa, all highly listenable, never dull. You can't listen passively--they shake a finger at you and say "Get a job!" or ask you "Dying to become a man? Well, I am your flag!". They mix the deadly earnestness of Elvis Costello with the singalong...