Beauty pageants are correctly viewed, these days, as grim occasions, rife and rank with objectification, but the historical fact remains that, for a number of serious stars, they were the first unseemly step on a difficult ladder.
Their schedule is tinged with the now-familiar mix of deference, nostalgia, optimism and outrage that such grim remembrances inevitably occasion in the rest of America.
On one occasion, his grim Scottish psychiatrist was so enraged by the stupidity of taking the risk that he gave Dan an ultimatum.
He paints these occasions as grim, commercial obligations.
We can imagine their grim visage on such occasions, illuminated paths of sweat scoring their dusty faces, hair held akimbo over penetrating eyes.
So it is to be expected that this emotional reunion would be an angst-riddled occasion, even without the Grim Reaper knocking on the front door.
In spite of his study, Dr. Grim, who said he would on occasion enjoy more than 12 beers in a night, is not on a campaign to decrease beer drinking among scientists.
Creeley has no equal among modern love poets writing in English, even if love for Creeley is characteristically an occasion for turmoil and rather grim business.
But the grim reality is that Thanksgiving 2014 represents a landmark occasion for New York City's poor.
