Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to thank you for your article "That T-Bone Religion" [Dec. 11]. I only wish there were more men like Reverend Ike. We might then get away from an altruistic morality that keeps the world in despair and poverty...
...requires a lawyer. The one he chooses is so incompetent that for another client, one of Di Noi's fellow prisoners, he draws a severe sentence on a minor charge, driving the prisoner to suicide. After this and accidental implication in a prison riot, Di Noi slips into despair and madness...
...disgrace. Bloody Five's bravura balances Galy's passive foolishness. As surely as the latter metamorphoses into the army beast, the former weakens and falls. It's grim stuff of which to make laughter, and the comedy does become pretty sinister. Brecht mines the parallel veins of humor and despair, and the production succeeds in emulating him--almost...
Maria shares her empty despair with B.Z., her husband's producer, her homosexual friend who has grown weary of giving everyone favors. Ostensibly amused by L.A. playing itself, he is more alienated than Maria. His father visited Lourdes and lost his faith; B.Z. didn't bother with the trip. He sits at the bottom of the well which Maria is falling down. All he can do is smile and welcome a companion. They share the parties and friends, and make the right cynical jokes. And they both know that it adds up to zero...
...weak. She quietly conveys Maria's estrangement, too weary to be desperate, which makes her response that "nothing applies" the only logical conclusion. Perkins comes on a bit too affably at first, but he successfully converts his tremulous smile--which he has undoubtedly copyrighted--from amusement to sadness to despair. The two build a completely believable sense of understanding between their characters. When B.Z. gives up and takes an overdose of Seconal in front of Maria, she knows better than to try to dissuade him. In the saddest, most human moment of the film, she holds him and sings...