Word: bereft
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...Save Orphans (uweso) to tour their aids-ravaged country for 10 days. The resulting documentary, A.B.C Africa, may not be what either the film maker or his hosts had in mind. Apparently realizing that the devastation was too great to make sense of, Kiarostami takes shot after shot of bereft kids, most of them singing, nearly all of them smiling. After a while, alas, this approach looks like exploitation - a minstrel show starring dying children...
...When we came to Harvard, it was bereft of arts," Biddle said. "We started arts at Harvard...
...Efforts to Save Orphans to tour their AIDS-ravaged country for 10 days. The resulting documentary, ABC Africa, may not be what either the filmmaker or his hosts had in mind. Apparently realizing that the devastation was too great to make sense of, Kiarostami takes shot after shot of bereft kids, most of them singing, nearly all of them smiling. Stick a camera in any child's face, and that's what he'll do: perform, to please the gawking outsider. After a while this approach looks like exploitation. It's sad to say, but one of the world...
...been unfolding around a doozy of emptiness. Here is a vast new worldwide audience of readers galvanized by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, and no new Harry Potter installment will appear this year to slake the pent-up cravings of the boy wizard's devotees. Millions of people bereft! What's worse, many more millions of dollars unspent at bookstores...
...seriously despite his inexperience in foreign affairs, he struck a tough-guy pose, compensating for shallow knowledge by adopting the combative tone of a cold warrior. Guided by advisers steeped in anticommunism, Candidate Bush sought to contrast his hard-eyed "realism" with a Clinton-Gore idealism that he called bereft of core principles and dominated by a misguided desire to insert Washington into global peacemaking. The easiest way to mark the distinction was to talk up Russia and China as nations with nukes that threatened American interests; Bush would treat them not as the friends or strategic partners of Clinton...