Word: despairful
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Despite the author's early myopia about wealth and poverty, her book is an astonishingly candid war diary of will vs. psychosis and despair. True, the record glistens with names: William Randolph Hearst, Constance Bennett, the Prince of Wales and, of course, a parade of Vanderbilts and Whitneys. But they are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress. Once Upon a Time is no clothbound gossip column, and its heroine is not the triumphant lady of the commercials, with shiny eyes and fixed grin. She is the buried child of long, long ago, still eager to please, still...
...despair. By the time "Late Night with David Letterman" is over, at about 1:30 a.m. (1:33 on the second floor of Sever), you probably will have figured out how to overcome these inconveniences. But don't stay up later than that worrying about it--or you'll miss breakfast...
...than the sum of its decadence is the tragedy of Prince Hamlet, the sense of loss that teaches for our hearts and squeezes hard That Hamlet dies is a pity, that Hamlet indecisiveness reminds us of our own is painful, but that's all, folks. What makes pity into despair and pain into anguish and Hamlet, the proto-Dallas, into a classic is: Hamlet's tragedy, his failure to achieve what we feel could have been true greatness. As Fortinbras says in the final act, "For he was likely, had he been put on. To have prov'd most royally...
...minor chords issuing from Thompson's twangy, vibrettoed guitar rumble and lament like a Scottish funural dirge, and his solo swoops gracefully and reverently around them. The words, though, are pure vitriol, worthy of an especially pissed-off Dylan or a younger Graham Parker. The extremity of its despair makes this song frightening, with appropriately violent references to love letters that are "pushed back down your throat and leave you choking...
...pass. Her interview, secretly shot for research purposes, was so convincing that Mary got the pass, but she subsequently admitted that she had been lying and had wanted to get away for another suicide try. By slowing down the film, Ekman found that Mary's face had sagged into despair, a telltale "microexpression" that lasted only one twenty- fourth of a second. Later he found other quick movements of deceit: part of a hand shrug, the brief lift of a shoulder...