Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Allen is looking not to accuse his characters, or even to absolve them, but to lay on a blessing. In his Manhattan everyone has his reasons, and almost everyone deserves a happy ending. Dear, dour Mickey gets blessed best, with a wry miracle of regeneration. The barrenness of despair gives way to a hope for continuation of the species. For most American directors--glad-handers and show- boaters--that resolution might seem tentative at best. But for Woody Allen, who finds grim death gargling all around him, isn't it romantic...
...tank burst into a fireball that destroyed the $1.2 billion Challenger high above the Atlantic while crew families and NASA officials watched in despair from the Cape...
Relatives and friends who grieved for the victims could only pray that the violence in the heartland, and the despair that has incited it, would subside. In Iowa City, 1,500 mourners jammed a memorial service for Hughes, where the Rev. Henry Greiner called on elected officials to "heed the cries of those who till the soil and feed the nation." In Lone Tree, Dale and Emily Burr were buried side by side in a cemetery just a mile from their farm. The day ^ before, Richard Goody's widow turned down the offer of a military funeral for her husband...
Sometimes, students are inspired by more immediate concerns and use the campus library desks as a forum for their feelings of despair about the rising tide of workload...
...pressing a grudge against American League Umpire Don Denkinger, who had made a fatal "safe" call at first base the night before. "I totally agree maybe he wasn't safe," allowed Denkinger decisively after viewing the replay. Branding American League umps "prejudiced" against National League teams, Herzog seemed to despair then and there. "We got as much chance of winning (tomorrow) as a monkey...