Word: somberness
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...badly outdistanced by the Washington Post on Watergate. Not until the Times in 1972 hired Seymour Hersh, who first exposed the My Lai massacre, did its Washington bureau do much in the way of investigative reporting. Shrinking profits have twice prompted Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger to send somber Yuletide messages to employees warning of economies ahead. Its editorial staff has been trimmed slightly...
Though the mood of the symposium was not despairing, it was somber. Some of the economists saw difficulties lasting well beyond 1974. Professor Pen suggested that 1974 "could be the first year of the new future"-one in which economists cannot automatically assume that there will be growth every year. If so, he fears, "many people who are now poor will have to renounce any hope of real progress" unless there is a massive redistribution of income...
...Splish Splash, won a larger audience with his driving version of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife; following open-heart surgery for a longtime heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A confessed student of the Sinatra style, Darin characteristically loosened his tie and snapped his fingers even when singing somber songs. In 1960 he married Sandra Dee, but by the middle of the decade both his marriage and his career were turning sour. A divorce and a new image gave him a boost, but he never achieved his outspoken ambition "to become a legend...
...superb cinematographer David Watkin has lit the family's old house in low, somber tones, giving it a tangible but evasive air of menace that perfectly matches the shadows and undertones of Pinter's language...
...seem to be fond of putting children into frying pans. Tomtes, on the other hand, are small (ten inches tall), benign and clever. The illustrator, John Bauer, who died in 1918, seems to have been Sweden's answer to Arthur Rackham and Howard Pyle. A fondness for somber colors makes him a good deal better at painting trolls than princes...