Word: despairful
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...novelist would recognize. That's what brings Luís María Peñuelas, a writer of popular westerns, into Clot's office seeking help. Mabel Martínez, heroine of Penuelas' latest work in progress, has escaped from the pages, Roger Rabbit-style, in apparent despair over her creator's inability to advance the story. Other wayward women clot Clot's life. His ex-spouse ("for a good-looking woman she was beautiful") won't take his videophone calls. A housewife is entertaining a mysterious daily visitor, and her husband hires Clot to investigate. Meanwhile, magicians...
...forces found the bikes ideal for moving quietly and without using scarce fuel. Word spread throughout the world's tightly knit military community; Montague has sold several thousand bikes to the military and other government agencies as well as to a number of foreign armies. Civilians shouldn't despair: they too can buy the camouflage-colored Paratrooper direct from Montague ($650) or at specialty shops. The only thing missing from the peaceful version: a gun rack. --By Sally B. Donnelly
...faces of despair beamed daily on evening newscasts since Hurricane Katrina first barreled through the Gulf Coast two weeks ago left a sour impression on Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Associate Professor of Public Policy Guy N. Stuart, who was struck by the ubiquitous images of black evacuees in the chaos...
...would mistake Blanco, 62, for Rudy Giuliani. In the first week after the storm hit, she came across as dazed and unsteady, at one moment in despair over "people probably who are on drugs, who are threatening other people, who are causing our rescue effort to stall"; at another, declaring her troops had "M-16s, and they're locked and loaded...
...less out of touch with the reality on the ground in New Orleans. On Aug. 31 he declared himself "extremely pleased" with the federal response to Katrina. In a conference call the next day with President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and five congressional leaders, when chaos and despair reigned in New Orleans, Chertoff insisted things weren't going as badly as media reports suggested, adding that he had spoken to local law-enforcement officials in the past hour. "Not that bad?" asked Harry Reid, the Senate Democratic leader, according to congressional sources. "Turn on your...