Word: despairful
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...playing and his broad-shouldered baritone. His rendition of Georgia on My Mind (1960) is about more than a state of the union; it turns longing into a state of grace. Many of his other hits, including Drown in My Own Tears (1955) and Busted (1963), were suffused with despair, but he performed them with such fortitude, they came across as revivifying. Indomitable in life (he overcame a 20-year heroin habit and fathered 11 children) and in song (he won 12 Grammys and legions of other honors), he showed that soul was good for the spirit...
...biggest change has been in Tweedy. The haggard despair shown in I Am Trying to Break Your Heart has been replaced by something approaching salubrity. Since his stint in rehab, he has lost weight, given up caffeine and shaken the migraines. "He looks more fit and together now," says John Stirratt, the band's bassist. "It's hard for me to tell because I see him a lot, but people tell me he looks like he's 25 again...
What Sheriff had at home was a comfortable life, an actress wife he adored and a passionate thing on the side with vodka and Scotch. Then his wife suddenly dies, and in despair he buries with her the manuscript and all the computer discs of his novel. Soon after, he is drafted by Great Uncle to produce a novel--in just 31 days--that will be published in the West under the dictator's name, all to dramatize the suffering of his nation under Western-imposed sanctions. Driven half-mad by the assignment, which he knows is the ultimate command...
...happened--as Hollywood would have seen fit to script it--the only people aside from Reagan who really believed in Star Wars were the military leadership of the Soviet Union. The Zap! Pow! Bam! comic-book defense strategy reinforced Moscow's growing despair about the future and hastened the end of the cold war. And that, finally, is what has proved most galling to the Gipper's ideological opponents: his glossy Hollywood optimism proved more supple than the professional pessimism of the intellectual left. Ultimately, Reagan's sloppy and often insensitive domestic governance will have little impact on his place...
...sexually possessive fathers, insane children, vindictive doctors, the hatred of the rich for the poor and, in the relationship of Reagan's character Drake McHugh and his friend Parris (Robert Cummings), a hint of homoeroticism. Reagan flawlessly navigates Drake's descent from rube bonhomie to maturing resolve to blackest despair, then up to a final splash of sunlight. Reagan considered the film his top accomplishment and never tired of screening it. In 1948 Wyman sued for divorce, charging extreme mental cruelty. But she had another complaint: "I just couldn't stand to watch that dismal Kings Row one more time...