Word: somberness
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...minor cerebrovascular accident" he suffered several months ago was a telling reminder that next week he turns 73. He recovered well, but for a man who has always looked 10 years younger than he actually is, the strain has been showing. He appeared on television last week in a somber mood, wearing severe eyeglasses instead of his usual contact lenses, and expressed himself like a politician from a generation ago, off-track and infelicitous. Chirac no longer looked like the colossal force he once was, but like a fading leader who doesn't have the strength left to push through...
...tools of the darkroom to make a familiar scene eerie or allegorical. Delano shoots in black and white, but he prints in black and gray. His photos look as if they've been rubbed with charcoal and might smudge if touched. The China he depicts is a somber, worn, dusty place, often devoid of the hopeful gleam it wears on billboards, state TV?and in real life. Few of the people pictured smile. "I like to make images that speak to the emotional side of things," says Delano. "I find beauty in melancholy...
...President Bush “has yet to ask for one resignation.” Actually, the Plame affair has not resulted in any admissions of guilt, at least to the public, and Bush promptly received I. Lewis Libby’s resignation. Finally, the editorial offers a few somber reflections. “We are eagerly anticipating answers and admissions of guilt,” the editorial declare, though, naturally, “it is not a time for the Democrats to bask in the glory of Republican corruption.” One struggles to keep a straight face...
...Bobcats were 1-0 in the ECAC. The next night, they beat Dartmouth 7-5, sweeping two of the conference’s toughest teams in one fell swoop. But after the game, as Quinnipac players and coaches mingled amidst a crowd of reporters and cameras, Tobe was somber. “It was a big game for them,” he shrugged. “But it was a big game for us, too.” —Staff writer Rebecca A. Seesel can be reached at seesel@fas.harvard.edu...
...instead, a song “just like Cubs in Five, except it’s all about death and loss.” At the center of his set, he placed one of the closing pieces of “Sunset Tree,” the usually somber elegy “Love Love Love.” The song starts at the periphery of a child’s education: “King Saul fell on his sword…and Joseph’s brother sold him down the river for a song...