Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cabaret in which she performs songs by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, accompanied by Paul Trueblood on piano. Faithfull initially had to struggle with the Kurt Weill Institute for permission to sing his songs. This obstacle seems ironic--for much publicized bouts with despair and heartache, not to mention drugs, make her a perfectly cast character...
Gwyneth Paltrow, as Tracy Mills, is the only real light or beauty in the entire film. She only has a few scenes, but she conveys overwhelming kindness and goodness in addition to the feeling of confinement and despair that the city forces upon her. She lives in an apartment which is located over a construction site, and which shakes like James Bond's martini every time a train passes...
...despair. What Harvard does offer, besides the all-important Harvard name that exponentially increases in importance the farther away from Harvard one travels, is the opportunity to enjoy athletics on an almost transcendental plane...
...self-confidence and security that can relieve our anxiety. However, anything that increases insecurity triggers a self-preservation withdrawal. This makes close relationships impossible and cuts us off from the source of emotional nurturing we need, further intensifying insecurity, increasing withdrawal and so on in a spiraling cycle of despair. There are many more things than technology in our society that make us feel anxious and insecure. MARILYN KRAMER Wausau, Wisconsin...
...enraged by Wright's constant use of the Unabomber as an authority on the problems that plague our times. Wright seems to have forgotten that the Unabomber is a killer, not a leading expert on the causes of despair. The biggest threat to our well-being is not in our genes but in the absence of moral clarity and purpose. When we start quoting serial killers, we have lost our moral compass. I am disgusted that TIME and other publications have legitimized rather than condemned this murderer. RICK SHUMAN Los Angeles...