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True, they are honest, hard-working taxpayers who didn't break the law--but the same thing could be said for the managers, employees, suppliers, and shareholders of the cigarette companies, and no one has given any thought to their bleak fortunes.
Today the square is a rather bleak and desolate place with a fountain and a circular World Clock, surrounded by grim, graffiti-ridden Communist architecture.
The secret rooms upstairs, where the family spent the daylight hours, are stark and bleak.
This was the same man whom I had described in my July Esquire piece as "one bright spot in an otherwise bleak conservative landscape."
Film director Stanley Kubrick died . Obituaries recalled his movies' eight Academy Awards, focusing on Dr. Strangelove , A Clockwork Orange , and 2001: A Space Odyssey , also mentioning Lolita and The Shining . Commentators debated the significance of the bleak fantasies in which he portrayed human recklessness, madness, brutality, murder, and nuclear holocaust.