Word: despaired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voice (she practiced in her hotel room, crying sharp, staccato "ha, ha, ha's" up and down the scale), the erectly graceful carriage, the suddenly confiding smile. In stunned silence, the audience watched her run the gamut from regal pride to jaded irony to a kind of enervated despair. Said a damp-eyed Bergner in her dressing room afterward: "Most of the generation who used to know me are dead or disappeared. It's so terribly touching...
Much of the realistic force of the film is derived from the story's phsical setting. Dassin has drawn on the Greek town and its people, utilizing the inherent despair of Greek folk-songs to express the despair of the characters, the material poverty of the citizens to underline their poverty of hope. Dassin has also exploited the aged and hardened faces of his Greek extras by using their expresisons to punctuate his dialogue...
...great leap forward" that was to make China a major industrial power in the twinkling of an eye has instead produced something close to chaos. In the ant-heap rural communes that were to convert 500 million peasants into depersonalized, multi-purpose labor units, there is apathy and despair...
...colonel was Comedian Art Carney, joined by Hermione Gingold in a parody of Separate Tables: Carney lost in Hermione's furs, and Carney in suicidal despair over having given the "wrong order" on D-day ("Desert!") was as funny as anything seen on TV. On his first of eight monthly shows this year, Carney was badly hampered by some dreadful jokes and a couple of high-school-level musical numbers. But in the skits he triumphed with his marvelously mobile face, his adaptable voice (he started in radio 17 years ago on a serious news show, impersonating Churchill...
There have been no steel negotiations since Tuesday night when top leaders in the industry and the United Steel Workers of America threw up their hands in despair of reaching a new contract agreement...