Behind the back of his politically conservative boss, Saavedra agrees to participate and finds that the advertising is a dourly unappealing litany of the regime's abuses created by an organization that has no confidence in its efforts.
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Another sexual teetotaler, identified in a Web chat room only as 204.240.2 . 73, took to celibacy after a series of bad love affairs, the last of which left her picking dourly at her wounds.
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"Savage Girl " ( HarperCollins, $ 26 ), Alex Shakar's first novel, due out in October, is much more dourly stylish and trendy _ a gruesome satire that imagines a world experienced only through consumerism.
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Jonathan Swift, Dean of St . Patrick's Cathedral, at first forbade his choristers to sing with that " club of fiddlers in Fishamble Street, " dourly noting the sinners and other theatrical types whom Handel had assembled.
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The result of her naivete is that the dopiest of her acolytes goes off to the Spanish Civil War and is killed; her favorite pupil betrays her to her great enemy, the dourly unimaginative head of Marcia Blaine Academy _ and Miss Brodie ends up a broken woman.
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Anticipating a rematch of Prime Minister Ehud Barak and the former prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in spring elections, they dourly envisaged a battle between two failed prime ministers against the backdrop of a deeply flawed political system and in the midst of a violent conflict with the Palestinians.
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While the Minnesota governor was dourly cross-examined by George Will on ABC for his Playboy gag about hoping for reincarnation as a " 38-double-D bra, " the Texas governor has been able to finesse his opposition to the test ban treaty with a three-sentence press release.
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V . S . Naipaul, whose darkly lucid novels and dourly unflinching reportage span the India of his ancestors, the Caribbean of his upbringing, and the England where he has lived for the past half-century, is the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday.
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And they exhibit an almost suicidal bravery in their fierce unwillingness to make likable their seething antihero, cabby Travis Bickle ( De Niro ), who peers dourly through his rain-smeared windshield at the lights of the Big Apple and promises, " Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets ."
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Back once again in the hands of original director John McTiernan ( absent from the disappointing " Die Hard 2 " ), the film is essentially a series of incredible action sequences as dourly wise-cracking New York cop John McClane ( Bruce Willis ) takes on a Eurotrash terrorist bomber named Simon ( Jeremy Irons ) in a chase that extends from one end of the Big Apple to the other.
