Word: despairful
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Despite its colossal box office success, the original Deep Throat left a wake of disaster for its creators and stars. Inside Deep Throat gives a whirlwind account of the manic blend of glamour, controversy, and despair that arose from just a six-day shoot with some low-grade cameras in southern Florida...
...much as the despair caused tears for Harvard last year, there was the hope that they were right there with the Bantams and that next year it would end differently...
...this bravado didn’t last. I spent the next three years struggling with math demons. A’s were followed by C’s in quick succession, bringing me to the heights of ecstasy and the depths of despair. A few topics in Calculus and PreCalc piqued my interest, and once I even spent a history class trying to solve a math problem with glee. But usually it was the other way around; math class was absorbed by writing sonnets, and I left without having understood the material. I refused to do homework, sometimes even...
...poetry, a form invented, and some say perfected, by men (the pen is still supposed to be a metaphorical penis, feminists argue) changing mores have chased guys away from the humanities. In high school, talking about books means talking about feelings: you know, love, despair and loneliness, not to mention race and gender and, uh-oh, are we supposed to be drawing insights about ourselves here? Stop! Stop! That’s so…gay. Or wussy. Or whatever word is currently a substitute for “non-masculine.” Although my brother developed a crush...
...again, I figure we might do a TRL rundown, or if we’re feeling technical, it could be the iTunes top downloads chart. In the meantime, a moment of silence for R&B newcomer and Chingy protégé Houston, who, in a fit of suicidal despair, gouged out his left eye last Thursday with a knife. He has since partially recovered, rediscovered his faith, and reaffirmed his will to live. I like that, indeed...