Word: despairing
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...showiest piece and ultimately the most moving is Kramer's tussle between hope and despair in Destiny. It is enriching, but not necessary, to know that the work is autobiographical and that its passion-spent central character, Ned Weeks, is a stand-in for the author, who co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis and the more radical ACT UP only to leave each in disappointment at their failure to save lives, not least, prospectively, his own. Ned is as hilariously self-congratulatory and self-critical as he was in the Kramer play that introduced him, The Normal Heart...
EVERYTHING ABOUT MEXICAN PAINTER Frida Kahlo was high drama. In pain all her life after a streetcar accident, she battled drugs and despair, had a tumultuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and conducted affairs with women and men, including Leon Trotsky. FRIDA, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, adds to her stature as cult figurine. Mexican musical motifs blend with spoken monologues and lyrical, character-defining songs, while masks and puppets recreate the magic realism of her paintings. In the title role, Helen Schneider conveys the radiance and explosive fury of the woman whose...
West said the Black community must overcome the temptation to hate, despair and doubt through love, community and "solidarity mediated by critical sensibilities...
These scenes and numbers are connect by the sentiment that the assassin's stories make up a single history which is a uniquely American one, the despair of people whose dreams have not come true in a country whose citizens can, and do, expect so much...
...magic of Locker-Soccer having turned to despair of Locker-Losses, with Harvard now having dropped six of its last eight games. The other two games? A crushing of eminently crushable Hofstra and a mediocre tie against mediocre Cornell...