Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cries of horror rose from the 250 bystanders as they realized what had happened. Two roommates, on the fire escape, looked down in despair...
...much sex on American TV? Not necessarily. Sex is a beautiful, even holy, part of human life, a unique way for husband and wife to express their love. No doubt there is too much dishonest sex on TV. How often do we see the aching emptiness, the joyless despair that so often follows sex without commitment? And certainly there is too much violence. It desensitizes its viewers to the horrors of actual violence and implies that it is an effective way to resolve conflict. I seldom see the dehumanization that violence produces, not only in its victims, but also...
...didn't stay wonderful. As New York Newsday blared in its Tuesday headline: IT'S GETTING UGLY. The Connecticut charges hit the papers, and Farrow's support team started spreading the bad news. Her friend Maria Roach released a Farrow letter, eloquent in its rage and despair: "I have spent more than a dozen years with a man who would destroy me and corrupt my daughter, leading her into a betrayal of her mother and her principles, leaving her morally bankrupt with the bond between us demolished. I can think of no crueler way to lose a child...
...mood of despair in Amsterdam last week was not shared by the small, stocky Frenchman who is one of the leading pioneers of AIDS research. By rights, Dr. Luc Montagnier ought to be alarmed by the suggestion that AIDS might occur without the HIV virus. After all, it was his team at the Pasteur Institute nine years ago that first isolated the infectious agent known...
Gerald Levin, Time Warner president and co-chief executive officer, said the firm would not pull the album, which he described as "depicting the despair and anger that hang in the air of every American inner city, not advocating attacks on police." He said Time Warner would sponsor a TV forum for artists, law-enforcement officials and others to discuss such topics as racism and free speech. Levin also said the company was declaring a 4-for-1 stock split and increasing its dividend...