Word: despairful
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...That the majority managed to stay sane and build a new life fascinates curator Hendriksen. In her own dark times, she says, she draws inspiration from the convict women, who would have thumbed their nose at authority and used humor and friendship to ward off despair. Writing for the catalog, she wonders why she and others are so interested in the convicts' stories: "Is it a sense of impotence of our effect, of our power to act in the world in a meaningful way? Are these women's stories a life affirmation to counteract the existential abyss that can sometimes...
...strict definition, but it has a feel. Its musicians reject show-biz glitz. They support progressive social causes. Many of them avoid dating groupies and models. Their music is usually guitar-driven, with experimental touches. While pop songs are often about love, alternative lyrics are usually about tougher feelings: despair, lust, confusion. Alternative rock is a reaction, especially among the twentysomething generation, to all the years of being subjected to Madonna's changing hair color and MTV close-ups of George Michael's butt...
...They're vital and craggy in this film. Faces jump off the screen and leech into your memory. Homer, a round-faced Freddy Fender type, and Tommy, the Valentino wannabe, and Yvonne, despair stamped on her prettiness. At the Ritz, bit players become stars for a second, like the toothless gent sucking on a beer bottle. Mackenzie's sense of portraiture is less stark and sensational than that of his contemporaries Robert Frank, Diane Arbus and Weegie, less hagiographic than the work of his predecessor Edward Curtis (whose photographs of Amerindians provide the film's opening montage). He just knows...
Technology, sadly, is not all today's youth are savvy about. In his address, the Pope lamented the "confusion" and "despair" caused by alcohol, drug abuse, violence, sexual degradation and a corrosive consumerism "where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experiences displace truth." Resisting the hedonism of other teens is "hard," says Matt McHugh, of Hartford, Wisconsin, who's wearing jeans and a black Nirvana T-shirt. "You see other kids doing things and it looks fun and it's tempting, but then you look at where that's going to lead." Brenda Breuer, also from...
...death in custody of an Aboriginal man nearly four years ago is the more powerful for her not making explicit all of her conclusions about the case. Without these in the way, the reader's own feelings have room to grow. Anger and sadness coalesce into something like despair: in 21st century Australia, how could this story have played...