Word: despairful
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...create a charismatic protagonist whose exercise of that free will was pointedly horrific. Larry Flynt has the nerve to argue for the sanctity of free speech but--for lack of a better word--censors its excesses. Fortunately, moviegoers who feel compelled to test their First Amendment absolutism need not despair. A more honest view of pornography and its practitioners can be found in the just released documentary Screwed, a portrait of Al Goldstein, who, as publisher of Screw magazine, sits even lower on the porno food chain than Flynt. As seen here in all his corpulent, wheezing glory, Goldstein...
...taken the collaborative work of thousands of scientists and physicians to get this far. It will take even greater cooperation and well-funded coordination to overcome the remaining hurdles. But the worst fear--the one that seeded a decade with despair, the foreboding sense that the AIDS virus might be invincible--has finally been subdued...
...conventions of language and sentiment that fit an earlier moment of AIDS, meaning all the years when death was at the end of every struggle, are unsuited to this one, when nothing is a foregone conclusion. Something powerful is happening. The new prospects for effective treatment insist that despair is an outmoded psychological reflex. Yet among people who live with AIDS, optimism is a suspicious character. Too many bright hopes of the past didn't pan out. So this is a moment in which, for anyone with feeling and judgment, feeling and judgment are unsettled...
...despair of parents, the new drugs are being denied for now to most HIV-positive children, because testing for pediatric use is incomplete. The drug companies that conduct the tests have been slow to move. Properly so, insist the companies, saying it was prudent to experiment first on adults. Their critics believe the industry neglects pediatric AIDS because children under 12 are a small market in all senses. Since 1981, only 7,200 have been diagnosed as having AIDS...
...plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Naomi Wallace's drama of life and lust during the 1665 London plague was the most ambitious, affecting, memorable. Wallace has a luxuriously poetic turn of mind and a gift for locating the heart of people on the brink of epiphany or despair...