Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...landscapes and in the performances -- by Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Giovanni Giudelli and (of course) Helena Bonham Carter -- that subvert caricature. And you are permitted to weep at the film's climax: a last embrace of two not-quite lovers, closest at this instant of separate, mutual despair. It is a sweet, seductive, haunting final shot...
...progrowth, probusiness ("You can't have employment and despise employers -- no goose, no golden eggs"), came away with 33% of the vote. His importance was symbolic as well as substantive: Tsongas possesses a power of glamourlessness, a nerdy, basset-hound anti-image that gives hope to some voters who despair of American politics as glib, empty, pointless -- all sound bites and video bursts. Tsongas' astringent message was that Santa Claus in whatever extravagant forms (Ronald Reagan or the Great Society) is not coming back, and the nation can't afford any more toys. Tsongas succeeded, for the moment, by being...
...filing the bells down. No longer permitted to do this, Sergiev decided that one of the bells, the "bell of hope, felicity and joy" (which was a member of the original set) was too close in pitch to another bell in the set, the "bell of famine pestilence and despair...
...chance at Albertville. On the morning of the 500-m race at Calgary, Jansen's older sister had died of leukemia. Favored to win, he had planned to dedicate the gold medal to her, but fell on the first turn. Later, in the 1,000 m, he fell again. Despair is too mild a word to describe the look on his face as he lifted himself from the ice. Four years later, a still introverted Jansen and his protective family assert that Calgary no longer haunts him. "There are other things in his life now," says his brother Michael...
...pathos inherent in these pieces doesn't obscure their entertainment value. Everyone secretly takes prurient pleasure in others' minor despair; nothing else explains why millions of people read columns which answer only three individuals' letters each day. Unfortunately, because of either their tight schedules or their unawareness of the near-comic nature of such columns as "Ask Beth," college students can seldom keep up with all the faux-human-tragedy splashed across newsstands. 15 MINUTES henceforth offers, as a service to its readers, this brief summary and handy ratings of selected letters and their responses...