Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sick and tired of having to eke my way through life. I'm sick and tired of being a nobody. I'm sick and tired of having nobody." Sharing the scene with a bowl haircut and a chipped tooth, Carrey nevertheless evinces a real sense of despair. Director Peter Farrelly says the scene took seven or eight takes to get right; each time, Carrey's eyes welled with tears on cue. "His emotions," Farrelly says, "are at his fingertips...
...understanding are a big part of the problem. In The Horse Whisperer, that's the damaged girl's mother (Kristin Scott Thomas). She has her virtues, most notably a determination not to let either Grace, who has lost a leg in the accident, or her mount succumb to despair. But she's a driven, unforgiving sort of woman--chic, brittle, chilly, not at all ideal-mom material. To put the point bluntly, we know what she needs, which is a good horse whisping...
...deepest despair after miscarrying, Amos says, she started listening to bodies of water, searching for "ancient women's rhythms" in the waves. Indeed, some of her new songs, most notably Liquid Diamonds, have a natural, primal groove that draws one in like gravity. This is excruciatingly private music, but it's not insular; it's inviting. No need to stick your head in the piano. Just listen...
Singers: Through despair and hope, through faith and love...
...Products were mass-produced and mass-marketed, with all the centralization and conformity that entails. Television sets and toothpaste, magazines and movies, shows and shoes: they were distributed or broadcast, in cookie-cutter form, from central facilities to millions of people. In reaction, a modernist mix of anarchy, existential despair and rebellion against conformity motivated art, music, literature, fashion and even behavior for much of the century...