Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despair, sports fan... this story has a happy ending. For on that day, when life seemed at its lowest ebb for this humble, unassuming young man, he got the call on a 40-yard field goal...
...name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair...
...critic David Denby writes a sensitive and intriguing analysis of this latest film by Spanish director Carlos Saurus in the Boston Phoenix that makes it sound like far and away the most interesting new movie in town. Saurus portrays the hypocrisy of a philandering, insensitive military man and the despair of his young wife who is dying of cancer through the eyes of their aloof, perceptive and frighteningly critical young daughter, Ana. At the same time, he includes scenes that give a more objective, more compassionate view of the unhappy parents. The theme of the child's view of adulthood...
...about two best friends and the captivating, unpredictable women who comes between them but at the same time brings them closer together is a classic that you should never grow tired of seeing. With its subtle variations of pace and atmosphere, its precious moments of spontaneous joy and sudden despair, and its wondrously wise insights into the dynamics of friendship and love, Jules and Jim will always be a source of new ideas and fresh emotional responses...
...reveal) the humiliations and failures--worst of all, the destructive power--of those who seek a way out of the shell of restrictions and conventions, out of the pervasive boredom and the stifling despair, out of the painful marital situations and the endemic social falsity, into what they take to be a vibrant and desirable life...