Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Proper Despair...
...optimism may have made this time endurable, but despair shows through tellingly in a series of films he made during the years from The Sleeping Tiger (1954) to Eva (1962). They are preoccupied with thwarted dreams and baroque psychopathy, with characters afflicted by spiritual wounds that will not heal. Although Losey had begun to work under his own name by 1957, it was not until the release of The Servant in 1963 that he became a film maker of international reputation. Losey and Pinter planned to do The Go-Between right after The Servant, but problems with the film rights...
...Payoff Zero. Meanwhile, the boomer spirit has given way to despair. Near Anchorage, construction of the new Forum Hotel has halted. At the Anchorage airport, the Red Dodge Aviation Co. has abandoned its partially finished $2,000,000 freight terminal and has filed for reorganization under the bankruptcy law. Interior Airlines has also gone to court to stave off creditors. Alaska Airlines is in dire financial straits, as are several construction companies. Many corporations have overextended themselves. Bankers have begun to dry up financial pipelines that were once easily accessible to entrepreneurs. The Alaskan unemployment rate is 13.8%. The state...
...since they were badly mauled last September by the Jordanian army. King Hussein seems determined to prove that he has the once-ungovernable commandos completely under control; last week his government hanged a guerrilla for committing sabotage at a phosphate plant outside Amman. Plagued by disunity and close to despair, the fedayeen might have launched last week's attacks, as Beirut's Daily Star observed, to prove that they "may be down but they...
...fellow officers prepare for their capture by burying their documents and insignia to conceal their high rank, Samsonov at first resists. Finally, apathetically, he allows one of his comrades to strip him of his own insignia. Suddenly he feels unencumbered and free?the freedom that rises out of total despair. Now he is anxious only to rid himself of his entourage and especially his orderly, Kupchik, who sticks close to him carrying the saddle blanket that belonged to the commander's abandoned horse...