Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Renaissance jester is a yea-sayer, a missionary for joy. "Usually when I'm asked why I write," says Rudnick, 35, "I reply, 'To avoid a day job.' But the truth is that there are people in real life I want to honor. It's easy to write about despair. It's tough to present optimism realistically and appealingly. I think it's a worthwhile goal to help people find genuine pleasure without feeling like fools. So I do try to celebrate. It doesn't get real Samuel Beckett in Paul Rudnickland...
...work at the plate is an exhausting war, too. Guess right and you can sock a bomb to left, touch the bases and come home a war hero. Guess wrong and it's the despair of a strikeout, or the frustration of a ground ball. Back into the dugout and slam your batting helmet against the concrete floor...
...prestigious Hill School in Pennsylvania. Years after he and his brother had got to know and love each other again, he admitted the scam to the somewhat more proper Geoffrey, who, profoundly shocked and sure he was seeing a reincarnation of their calamitous dad, said in groaning despair, "Oh, Toby...
Director Robert Hossein, who conceived the show, also mounted the first version of the musical hit Les Miserables, though in static, arena-style tableaux rather than the Broadway staging. Radio City executive producer Scott Sanders likens Jesus to Les Miz. Says he: "These shows offer pain, despair and suffering followed by hope, ending in a joyous feeling of power and faith. That is quality family entertainment." With both Jesus and Les Miz, Hossein has not so much told a story as relied on audiences to know it already. Jesus neither starts with the birth of its hero nor ends with...
...finding a cure, and to capture somehow these complexities with words must be one of the most formidable tasks available to the contemorary literati. And, like finding a cure, the writing of the AIDS novel, or novels, will be marked by marry wrong turns, trial, error, frustrations, advances, despair and hope. Gone Tomorrow, though interesting in its premise and ambitious in its multi-oriented goal, seems like an experiment that leads to no major breakthrough. Though ultimately unsuccessful, it remains important for scouting out uncharted new territory...