Word: despairful
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...would be a rarity in any era, a literary memoir free of rancor and score settling. The author recalls her first husband, John Berryman, and his friends, among them Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell and Delmore Schwartz, men who left behind some splendid poems and some sad histories of alcoholism, despair and suicide. But here they are young and joyful amid the possibilities of words, ignorant of the sadnesses that await them...
...what he is trying to do to see the significance of what he has already done: he has accelerated history, making possible the end of one of its most disreputable episodes, the imposition of a cruel and unnatural order on hundreds of millions of people. Sooner or later, their despair and defiance would have reached critical mass. But the explosion occurred this year, much sooner and more spectacularly than anyone had predicted, because the people had in Gorbachev the most powerful ally imaginable...
...life is a ceaseless, sickening debate about the war. Even in Mexico, at a kind of seraglio for impotent veterans, he finds little sympathy among his own crippled kind. He looks into the angry face of his buddy Charlie (Willem Dafoe) and finds a mirror of his own grotesque despair. He has hit bottom...
...Daniels, though too fresh-faced as the blue-collar father, brings hot-tempered passion to the role. And Lahti, possibly the best actress in America working in TV (she won an Emmy nomination for her performance in the mini-series Amerika), is truly heartbreaking. She can convey both the despair lurking behind a brave comment to her husband and a pathetic joy at ever smaller victories. "You guys, look!" she gasps on first ^ seeing their decrepit bathroom in the welfare hotel. "Privacy!" In the controversy over fact vs. fiction, real artistry can settle a lot of debates...
...bringing succor to the poor and dying of Calcutta and Kalighat, Mother Teresa finds richness in utter poverty and hope in the darkest corners of despair...