Word: despairing
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...explored on TV outside Discovery-channel documentaries. Displaced from a reservation to a gang-infested California town, Mollie (Sheila Tousey), the widowed matriarch, tries to quell her rage with drink; but the story ultimately belongs to her eldest daughter Justine (Deeny Dakota), who is battling her own history of despair. The teenager has never known her natural father, but when she finds him, her pain is deepened: he is also the father of the only gentle suitor she has ever...
...gate on the end of everything from jaywalking to capital murder (Billygate, contra-gate, Irangate, travelgate, skategate, ad nauseam). First, though, we have to find a cute replacement that you can cement yourselves to for the next half-century or so. Let's see: "Whitebilly" (nah)..."travelwater" (ugh). I despair. ERIC POOLE Londonderry, New Hampshire Via E-mail
...were asexual, but that only made them more American, and saved them from the whiff of scandal that clung to Eakins. His mastery and fluency--in oil and especially in watercolor, which he was largely responsible for establishing as a serious medium in America--were the envy and secret despair of many an artist. The triumph of modernism after the 1930s, however, put Homer's reputation on the downgrade; he looked like an illustrator, with his jumping trout and scudding catboats. Thirty years ago, anyone rash enough to suggest that he was at least as important an artist as Jackson...
...many pop songs inhabit emotional extremes--the juice of ecstasy, the razor on the wrist of despair--that someone writing about the middle ground most of us occupy most of the time can sound like a pioneer of the everyday. Peters extracts muted poetry from lives that might seem either prosaic, like taxi drivers (A Room with a View) and people locked in a traffic jam (Waiting for the Light to Turn Green), or dangerous (Circus Girl). Carmelita, in Border Town, leaves her own baby at home "to love somebody else's child" as a nanny: "She keeps her distance...
...into walking, don't despair; the trusty T can take you to most spots on the various trails, and almost anywhere else you'd like...