Word: despairing
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...trio also laments inner-city despair on the ballad Waterfalls ("My only bleedin' hope/ Is for the folk who can't cope"). But the secret of TLC's success isn't social commentary. It may not fit the initials, but what TLC really stands for is pure, funky fun. And CrazySexyCool delivers...
...despair. After it hosts Lehigh today in a rare Saturday afternoon game at Briggs' Cage, Harvard opens its lvy schedule next Tuesday against Dartmouth, and then after four non-league games, starts the lvy season in earnest January 7 at power-house Penn...
...Israeli right-wingers. Now the possibility of civil war is hard to dismiss. Eyad Sarraj lists the key ingredients he believes are already present: "A weak authority, a strong opposition, undisciplined people on both sides, plenty of arms, plenty of outside influence and an environment of disillusion and despair...
...Friel's play follows no such forced structure. The tragedy and the comedy are both equally present and equally real from the beginning. Indeed, what is disturbing about Dancing at Lughnasa is not the depressing tale of the Mundys' decline; rather it is the slapdash casserole of elation and despair that makes up their everday lives...
...Mother has one other element that stamps it unmistakably as from another era. Though it ends on a superficially hopeful note, the emotional climax is the old woman's almost heartbreaking cry of despair in the penultimate scene: "I'm 66 years old, and I don't know what the purpose of it all was. An endless, endless struggle. And for what? For what?" Don't look for cries of existential anguish in today's prime-time dramas, where every story must be uplifting, and even bad things teach good people heartening lessons. The Mother is dated, all right...