Economic worrywarts face the grim need to cheer up.
And in the most farcical plot element, which will become the grimmest, he needs to untangle a mess in a distant war-torn country that sounds very much like Iraq to salvage an unfortunate investment involving 1,000 sheep and a sheep-dip facility.
Sometimes when you're doing really grim shit you need that inspiration".
According to the official measure, which counts pre-tax cash income, 34.6m people live in poverty in America.These figures are grim, but they need to be put into context.
"It's pretty grim and we need things to change and fast so that we can get some decent crowds in".
- Most mothers and fathers needed a caregiver to receive them for the first visit to the NICU, perceived as very stressful: " You come into this grim place; you need someone to say to you, ' you' ll see, it' s a little strange, a little dark, but that' s normal,' because at the beginning, what' s dark, is death" (m28).
No one who has lost a vacation needs more grim details.
But Ian Cobain and Fariha Karim's thorough exploration of the Task Force for Interrogation (TFI) operation in Dhaka, its links with MI5 and MI6 and the Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports that suggest systemic use of torture makes a grim, compelling case which needs to be answered.
"Originally they wanted to put it on this winter but I said 'if you want to change people's minds about it being grim up north, you need to hold it in summer'," he said.
But a lamppost, in that grim setting, didn't need to be straight from Narnia.
A nuclear apocalypse isn't inevitable, however, and the grim history of Hiroshima need not be repeated.
