Word: despairful
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...stingy: God came to earth (so the story goes) in only one incarnation, Jesus. In the East, there were many incarnations, many teachers, many who attained nirvana. The spiritual struggle in the East is not so hopeless, with divine grace coming in the last moments of submission and despair like some celestial cavalry riding over the hill as the archangels play their bugles...
Panama may be intended as a dithyramb of exhaustion-Pomeroy's and, grandiosely, the American culture's. But despair loses something when it is unearned and vaguely cute. The novel savors of cocaine, narcissism and a certain impenetrable smugness...
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...quite possible to attend Despair in the wrong frame of mind, having worked one's emotions into shape for piano moving, so to speak, only to find that there is nothing heavier than a seltzer bottle or a nightgown being lifted. Despair is, in fact, a light and lavender comedy about a crazed Russian émigré named Hermann Hermann, who watches in amazement as his mind splits like his name, into two equal parts. The film is set in Berlin. Based on a 1936 novel written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov, it is hopeless in mood, but most...
...gifted German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder hired Playwright Tom Stoppard, author of that Nabokovian whimsy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, to adapt Despair for the screen. Except for one grave lapse, he has done so effectively and with suitable reverence, and Fassbinder has assembled a first-rate cast...