Word: despairful
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...designers and that she got them straight off the rack. Jack Kennedy was also courting the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, whose powerful president, David Dubinsky, was cautioning J.F.K. that his wife had to buy American. Jackie could see what the press would make her into. She wrote in despair to a friend: "I refuse to be the Marie-Antoinette...of the 1960s...
...Could he prove Congo's savior? His father promised much but dragged the country further into despair. Joseph Kabila, whose tendency to platitude may indicate a lack of acuity or, perhaps, an awareness that he still has much to learn, says becoming President is a sacrifice he is happy to make. He pauses before hinting at a most un-African notion: that being President is not a job for life. "After some time, maybe I'll leave office, and I'll have enough time to go and do other things," he says. Then, perhaps, he will have the time...
...interest this painfully heartfelt account of the power of methamphetamines. Greenfeld gets it. I've had enough of people pontificating on the evils of speed in a blind spew of judgmental ignorance. Unless you've taken that hit yourself and felt the rush, then crashed hard in anguish and despair afterward, I'm not interested in your opinion on the subject. BRIDGET Q. CAIN San Diego
Paintings depicting Osiris’ corpse serve as the first subcategory of the exhibit.These paintings are distinguished by their uniformly dark color scheme, dominated by shadows and feelings of despair and hopelessness. Most are portraits of Isis grieving over Osiris’ body, or over his skull alone. The color scheme complements the combination of mourning and anger inherent in this theme. The backgrounds of these paintings are black skies shot through with angry red accents. The skin tones of the figures are also darker than those in depicted in the other works displayed, created from a mixture of reds...
...military-industrial complex, you see, has reared its bloody head with renewed vengeance. But big-hearted professors of The Rights of Man need not despair just yet, if only we can divert some of the war-mongering wampum from bombers, battleships and other things armies generally need to—dum-da-da-dee-DUM!—a beefed-up force of permanent peacekeepers...