Word: despairful
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...process. Sometimes the slow triplets--TKP loved to play triples, for some reason--even conceal a useful, if cynical, epigram: "In all events considerations reach a point where resignation seems a way of getting everything you need..." introduces, mildly enough, a song whose chorus is a swell of despair. "I find/Words/Fail...
Strong language, and carrying something of the conviction born of despair. A long series of earlier warnings -- most recently a NATO resolution last August authorizing air strikes to prevent the "strangulation" of Sarajevo -- had sputtered to nothing. For that very reason, argued a NATO official, if the Serbs defy the new ultimatum "we have to attack. If we didn't, NATO's credibility would suffer a fatal blow...
Johnny Melton, 28, is a man who looks on the bright side. "It was due to love," he explains. Melton is fixing himself a red Kool-Aid at the epicenter of America's most recent landscape of despair, the apartment he occupies with 27 relatives at 219 North Keystone Avenue on Chicago's run-down West Side. The dwelling is as the national headlines described it: drug deals transacted outside but not within; a sink swarming with roaches; a refrigerator filled with rotting and moldy food. An old-fashioned ice-cream crank perches incongruously on a shelf. At Melton...
Local folk and bluegrass freaks who missed Friday's show should not despair: this spring's folk lineup features a suprising number of worldclass masters. This year's Women in Folk Rock show at the Somerville Theater is March 12, and Northern Lights will be playing April 30 along with The Austin Lounge Lizards and Ranch Romance, also at the Somerville...
...weren't able to think Dangerous Liaisonslong enough before we thought Cinderella. We couldn't muster up the appropriate amount of disgust and despair necessary to sound convincing...