Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Miller, Hanks has a moment when the burden of leadership in war has nearly broken him. He walks over a hillside from his fractious men (far enough away that no one will see him) and sobs (so softly that no one will hear him). He is discreet even in despair...
Beyond that, you have to thank all concerned for giving that great minimalist, Bill Murray, his first good role since 1993's Groundhog Day. It's oxymoronically difficult to get laughs out of clinical depression, but as Blume, an industrialist driven to despair by his wealth, his wife and his ghastly children, Murray does it brilliantly. He's also the perfect foil for endlessly up-and-doing Max, who is, perhaps, everything Blume once was, all that he can no longer be. Their eccentricities speak to one another--until they both fall in love with pretty, wistful Miss Cross (Olivia...
...recounts how he never found true love in a relationship, quenched his loneliness with promiscuous affairs and used friendship as the one predictable source of support and spirituality. Friendship, in fact, forms a main artery of the book. After the onset of AIDS symptoms and the cavernous despair that ensued, Sullivan cites the strength of his friendships as providing his only scaffold of hope. But not even friendship was immune to the epidemic. As AIDS infiltrated the gay community with the stealth and fury of a plague, Sullivan buried some of his closest friends and saw others deteriorate...
...come down definitively on either side. On the one hand, we can't help but sympathize with victims' families and their yearning for closure, if not revenge. On the other, we see how a death sentence has dehumanized a man like Gurule, driving him to the depths of despair and desperation...
...Earth. This is today, and you need to brush your teeth,'" recalls Natasha Kern, a Portland, Ore., literary agent who identified her daughter Athena's troubles early on. These are the kids who get expelled from nursery school for disrupting every story circle and demolishing every Lego tower. Parents despair at seeing their children sad or lost or cast out; they hate themselves when they lose their tempers after the sixth meltdown of the day. These kids can be very bright, very charming--and impossible to live with. "They think of things that are fun and creative at the rate...