A grim legacy meant that his work was cut out for him.

"If the film can do anything," he said, "it can remove the grim legacy of that day and consign it to history."

There is grim legacy enough for everyone from that extraordinary year.

London, at least, is beginning to acknowledge its grim postwar legacy, in particular the high-rises of the oppressive Barbican Center.

The fact that the camp was used for propaganda under the Communists may explain some of the residents' lack of sympathy toward memorializing its grim legacy.

A1 The grimmest legacy of the Cultural Revolution.

The mobsters' grim legacy also includes assassins, now underemployed, who will kill for as little as $70 a victim.

But he faces a grim legacy: in the 20 years of dictatorship (between 1964 and 1985) some 1200 peasants were murdered as a result of land conflict.

Of all the grim legacies of the Nicolae Ceausescu era, this may be the most chilling.

Either way, the smile Mrs Diamond had complained about was no more than a grim legacy of drastic surgery.