Word: despairful
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...Clinton made love: "Upstream, a deer's hoof sucked in the soft mud, but Reva kept watching the swimming moon-the same moon she knew Clinton watched with his cincinnate whore. "She realizes the hopelessness of her desires, and sets fire to the lockhouse in an act of despair and rejection...
...success of A Wrinkle In Times after the initial skepticism is one of the publishing world's Cinderella fables. Twenty printing houses turned it down, and the author gave up in despair when, after two years of submission and resubmission, she received the last two rejections in the mail the day before Christmas. It wasn't her first novel-The Small Rain and Meet the Austin family stories with protagonists in their teens, had appeared and done moderately well-but it was on L 'Engle had spent almost 18 months writing and she hated to give...
...what it's like to be ugly and still feel beautiful." An angel-faced teen-age boy, whose ardor for Fascism amounts almost to sexual hysteria, is shot by some of the villagers he tried to kill; seeing this, his Fascist father flies into a fatal jitterbug of despair, burrowing his head into the hard earth. Cecilia, at six the youngest of the fleeing villagers, finds the ordeal a delicious, dangerous game, like hopscotching through a minefield...
Even in the depths of their current despair, Detroit automakers have shown that they can learn from the competition, including their archrivals in Japan. Japanese inventory-control techniques are being introduced in U.S. plants, as are pared-down corporate staffs and worker-management cooperation programs. Now General Motors Corp. is pushing that process one giant step further, taking to heart the old tactic of joining 'em when you can't beat 'em. Reports out of Tokyo and Detroit last week indicated that GM, America's largest car manufacturer (sales in 1982's first nine months...
...parents. Without a Trace, loosely based on the disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz from a SoHo street in 1979, is an earnest, fatally muddled attempt to dramatize this dilemma. A boy is missing; his mother (Kate Nelligan) and father (David Dukes) wait and wait, not daring to despair; a sympathetic detective (Judd Hirsch) trudges after tantalizing leads; a kind of life goes...