Word: brokenness
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...does the blues mean for you emotionally? Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements. It's about "My baby left me." (See pictures of electric-guitar players...
...Anderson proved easy to fall out of love with as well, as his subsequent movies became bogged down by a tendency to revisit the same themes - broken families in need of healing - and control issues that were outsize even for a filmmaker. With The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou there was the sense of being sucked into a rabbit hole dug by Anderson, and by the cloying The Darjeeling Limited, his self-indulgence had swollen to the point where the hole was too claustrophobic for any but his most devoted fans to bear...
Especially if alcohol is involved. Alcohol might make us act drunk, but it makes you, UHS, act crazy. You fixate on the substance rather than on the substantive problems. We hear anecdotes all the time of friends showing up drunk and with broken ankles, yet only treated—with a sneer—for the alcohol. The psychological trauma of having to spend any time in a hospital (where no hospitality is to be found) is hard enough as is without having those who are supposed to “help” only helping increase our sense...
...changed his definition, he says, because "this new strategy of al-Qaeda is to empower and motivate individuals to commit acts of violence completely outside any terrorist chain of command." Every month this year, he notes, there has been a terrorist event - either an act committed or one broken up before it could be carried out. "The nature of terrorism is changing, and Major Hasan may be an example of that," Hoffman argues. "Even if he turns out to have had no political motive, this is a sea change...
...Though most thieves rationalize their acts, the current situation has many people feeling the entire system is broken, that politicians are too corrupt or inept to fix it, and that there's nothing wrong with stealing from these big companies and fancy stores that - the thinking goes - are themselves making out like thieves," Bamfield explains. "There's a real perception among many new shoplifters that if you work hard, put money away and play the game, you're asking for someone to come along and rip you off." (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...