Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of the highrise tenements used asurban public housingwill soon be replaced by "smaller, more humane" buildings under a new Clinton Administration plan. Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros announced the policy shift today, stating that the projects only lead to "community despair" while public townhouses, smaller apartment buildings and tree-lined streets will result in "community pride." Units in Philadelphia, St. Louis and Atlanta are already slated for demolition over the next two months, while 29 other developments will be replaced over the next year...
...film is set in eighteenth century Scotland, a time, a rolling script informs us, of great hardship for the Scots. In an age of corruption and despair, Robert Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson) upholds the ancient clannish honor. Supported by his bonny red-haired wife Mary (Jessica Lange) and a host of loyal MacGregors, Rob Roy matches wits and brawn with the dastardly Archibald Cunningham (Tim Roth), bewigged defiler (and then some) of the MacGregor name...
...with evidence and arguments for each side. But in movie terms, the case is stacked against Lange: next to Berry's radiant youth, she looks sere and exhausted. It is one of those dares a maturing female star likes to take: stripping off her glamour to reveal bone, sinew, despair...
...some such doldrum, adrift in giddiness or despair, Chabon decided to write about a novelist who can't get his next novel written. Sure enough, Wonder Boys (Villard; 368 pages; $23) is, rather too cutely, not just the title of Chabon's book, but of the novel his hero Grady Tripp can't bring himself to finish. Tripp's well-reviewed early books are receding into the distant past, and he feels fraudulent when his writing students admire them. He pretends optimism to his editor, but the truth is that his half-written book is an unreadable mass of unstrung...
...message to all first-years who feel yougot screwed over yesterday; don't despair. You'llprobably grow to love your House. Or you'lltransfer, and love your new House. Or you'll moveoff-campus, and love your apartment, and feelreally grown up and romanticize the squalor inyour kitchen. It will work out-not in the end,really soon. What's important is to be with peopleyou love, doing things you love. The place whereyou're doing them, well, is secondary