Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of Republican Riegle's rage and despair reflect his feelings about his party chief and President, Richard M. Nixon. The President, he says, urged him to run in 1966. In 1968 Nixon told him, "Well, you know, Don, if we're elected, we'll end this war in six months." But the war went on. Largely for that reason, Riegle became one of a small band of liberal anti-Nixon Republicans. He soon found himself dropped from the White House invitation list. He could not even get Nixon to pose with the little Michigan girl...
...Danish Willy Loman. He would like to be well-liked at Elsinore. He barely sniffs the stench of corruption at the court but is baffled by the toughness of the territory, as if it were New England. And like Willy Loman, he is virtually humorless, unable to season his despair or get a proper perspective on himself. Because he is an extravert, Keach is weakest in the soliloquies, good in all the social scenes, the guying of Polonius, and brilliant in the duel with Laertes, which for feral second-to-second menace has never been better staged...
...that's Hill's big touch, and he otherwise relies squarely on Vonnegut. Vonnegut is no Heller--he can't truck with theory or the wide scope that precedes it. But he's touched upon the major fears of our century, and had us feel his despair. And by being true to Vonnegut, George Roy Hill has produced a moving (if cerebrally uninteresting) film, which has less pretension and more honesty to it than such an adaptation of a much worthier book as Mike Nichol's film of Catch...
Corrupt Priest. Some of the confessions must have been sheer defiance: faced with a ruling establishment that was sanctified by the church, a resentful peasantry followed the only image of rebellion they knew?Satan. The satanic messiah became especially appealing in times of despair, such as the era of the plague known as the Black Death. Real or imagined, the pact with the Devil may have been the last bad hope for safety in a world fallen out of joint. Thousands died in the persecution, many of them probably guilty
...after a typically wretched time teaching school. His wife Sheila (Janet Suzman) has tea waiting and dinner warming in the oven. They joke together, Bri tries to coax Sheila into bed, and their only child comes home from school. She is called, with a mixture of brutal humor and despair, Joe Egg. She is autistic, beyond help and hope-a child barely aware of her own life who slumps in her high chair like a boiled vegetable...