Word: somberness
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Though it was not an entirely successful approach-some first-nighters found Ustinov's somber lighting too unvarying, his crowd scenes too busy-Ustinov did manage to balance the bawdy with the foreboding in a psychologically adroit way. Costumes contrasted gaily and innocently with the ominous surroundings. The mood was like nothing so much as a folk festival in which the compassionate, suspicious, sacred, profane and foolish commingled...
When Indira Gandhi mounted the sandstone ramparts of Delhi's Red Fort last week to deliver the traditional address marking the anniversary of India's independence, the heavy monsoon sky was a somber gray. But at least it provided rain and relief from a disastrous two-year drought. That was more than Indira Gandhi and India's 575 million people could hope for concerning the nation's social and economic outlook...
...start of the meeting never deters Dunlop from continuing his performance. While Bok plays the somber straight man, Dunlop slouches in his chair, scowls disdainfully in the direction of his ever diminishing number of adversaries, only to jerk upright in paroxysms of laughter when his side scores a point. At a meeting last Fall, he and Bok disagreed over a bit of financial minutia, and when evidence corroborating his position came forth from the audience, he lurched forward chuckling, his finger waggling at the somewhat taken aback Bok. Some observers swore they saw him stick out his tongue...
...fully understood, plays a role in kidney problems and diabetes as well. In fact, doctors have long estimated that some 23 million Americans-one out of every nine-have hypertension, half of them without knowing it. Last week the Louisiana Heart Association presented evidence that even that somber estimate...
...epicenter stood a somber and shaken Richard Nixon, facing one of his gravest crises. Forced by events to concede that his earlier blanket denials of White House involvement had been wrong, he finally dropped the pretense of being untouched by it all. Either he had been inexcusably remiss in not pressing an earlier, deeper investigation of the matter, or he had been amazingly naive in trusting his aides' protestations of innocence?despite repeated evidence in news reports to the contrary?or he had been a willing party to their deception. Either way, he could not escape heavy responsibility. Despite...