Word: despairful
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...same people since the 1950s, when conservatives grabbed power with a "monomaniacal concentration on economic growth" intended to smother public debate on constitutional reform and foreign policy. But the implosion of the world's second-largest economy has now damaged that system beyond repair, and Buruma warns that despair and cynicism could again nudge the country in dangerous directions. Until Japan confronts its past, in other words, we shouldn't expect much from attempts to reinvent its future. But hey, those little cell phones really are something...
...soups, champagne and even fennel-scented perfume. "Personally, I would not want two stars, let alone three," says actress Leslie Caron (Gigi, Chocolat), owner of another Burgundy restaurant. Caron, who knew Loiseau, believes the downturn in the economy and the looming war in Iraq must have driven him to despair...
Four lanky, identical dolls have been hung in a row with their bodies arrayed in various positions. The right-most figure bends at the neck, almost scrunching its shoulders. The next falls at the torso as if hanging its head (and entire upper body) in despair. The third crumbles under an invisible burden on its shoulders. The left-most doll’s arms reach to just above its feet. That final position is almost fetal—or fatalistic...
...perfume. "Personally, I would not want two stars, let alone three," says Leslie Caron, owner of another Burgundy restaurant and the actress in the movies Gigi and Chocolat. Caron, who knew Loiseau, believes the downturn in the economy and the looming war in Iraq must have driven him to despair. But money did not kill Loiseau, insists Bernard Fabre, his financial director. "All of that is completely false. The restaurants were doing quite well." And the guidebooks are denying guilt as well. "It's not a bad score or one less star that killed him," said GaultMillau head Patrick Mayenobe...
...realm of tired cliches, laying an ethereal flute and keys over violins and a crunchy boom-bip. MC Zion particularly shines on “Dune,” a haunting proclamation of socio-political apocalypse. The song’s chorus finds some hope among all the despair: “Cadillac, prison guards, Mumia behind bars / We in charge, live for God, no matter how hard...