Word: despairful
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...belong to a literate lawyer, and Keaton has just called. Anxieties have gnawed dangerously at confidence during the night, and repairs must be made. "I'm a guilt-ridden, anhedonic type," says Allen, whose conversation can sound like a Woody Allen movie without the jokes. He lives with despair, gloomily believing that his films "are all strikeouts. None of them achieved what I'd hoped to do." Keaton argues that the films are lovely, funny, an imperishable national asset...
...season--brutal words for any athlete, words that cause incredulity first, then outrage, then despair...
...note of hope as the film's protagonist gains his release from a local mental institution. Played by a German actor going under the nom de theatre of Bruno S., the Stroszek character quickly becomes an awkward and self-conscious symbol of the social orphan. Herzog sketches the despair and alienation of the vagrant with an unflinching vengeance...
Including Me profiles six children who either have been mainstreamed like Suzanne, or, like Lisa, still receive individual attention. One also hears the voices of parents who despair that their children will ever receive a proper public education. "These quality programs exist in reality in only a few places, while hundreds of thousands of children are totally neglected," reports Narrator Patricia Neal, herself once paralyzed by a stroke. The program ends with a plea to see that the act is properly implemented ("Talk to your P.T.A., principals, to the school board"). After the film, 109 of the stations...
...Cream, long renowned as the source of the best ice cream in the area, is under new management. Stephen Herrell, the store's founder, sold it to Joseph Crugnale of Somerville, and he says he feels as if he'd been through a divorce. But before you melt in despair, take heart: Crugnale promises neither the ice cream nor the name will change...