Word: despairful
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...over are hoping fantasy will keep the cash registers ringing. Gnomes is a bit passe, but try The Unicorn, The Unicorn and the Lake or, for a change of pace, The Book of Gryphons. Witches might sound like a straight-laced topic for novelist Erica Jong, but don't despair: Jong has conjured up enough juicy tidbits of witchlore to transform even those cackling hags into erotic subjects...
...members began trading public insults, and with that, the Prime Minister's authority dissolved. Spadolini called for the resignation of the battling ministers. They balked; in the tradition of Italian coalition politics, Cabinet members serve as representatives of parties, not at the pleasure of the Prime Minister. In despair, Spadolini resigned. Lamented Milan's Corriere della Sera in a front-page editorial: "What we now have is not an ordinary government crisis. . . but the greatest...
...Agassiz Theater, with its Victorian decor and its Radcliffe affiliation, is the perfect setting for Dudley House's production it conjures up the very turn-of-the century female identity that gives rise to both Mary McLane's artistic uniqueness and her despair. Donna Staephansky as the dying, 40-year-old Mary succeeds in dominating the play from her sickbed her haggard face showing the marks of unfulfilled expectation. Her raspy voiced stubborness and eccentricity keep her alive as a character and avoid the danger of letting the role wallow in bitterness and cynicism...
...infuriates voters and slightly less ham-handed ads that impress them is elusive. In Texas, Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen won re-election with the aid of a TV ad that pictured a frail old woman walking to her mailbox, finding it empty and staring at the camera in despair, while a voice accused Bentsen's opponent James Collins of plotting to wreck Social Security. Though Collins once advocated making Social Security voluntary, he now insists that he is avid to preserve the system. In Pennsylvania, Democrat Peter Kostmayer ran ads showing a picture of Republican James Coyne...
...baroness Karen Blixen, who hid under a series of pseudonyms, did deserve the prize she never received. Other rewards came: public adulation, critical respect, worldwide royalties. But as Poet Judith Thurman makes clear in her scrupulous and elegant biography, the baroness also suffered tribulations that force weaker souls to despair or madness. "All sorrows can be borne," she declared, "if you put them into a story," and most of her 77 years were spent transmuting the tragic into the anecdotal...