Word: despairs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Unlike most period pieces, Cinderella Man encourages us to fondly recall not songs or clothes but values we have largely mislaid. Look on the faces of the elder Braddocks when they realize they don't have enough fried bologna to feed their kids, and you'll understand true despair-and the bravery it takes to overcome it. -By Richard Schickel
...best, found its perfect showcase in the Lumiere. Of course the audience of 2,400 exulted when the Star Wars logo first appeared; that happens any time one of the six films is shown. But they remained enthralled, clung tight through the time-warp space ride of thrills and despair, sensations and special effects, in part because of the glorious visual presentation. This is a handsome movie, but it will never again look so good as it did today...
...After we lost to Williams in our second game, we were in despair and thinking we had no shot,” co-captain Jack M. Marsh ’06 said. “But we regrouped and turned it up. We just played great on Sunday...
...that the selection of Ratzinger came as a surprise to me, where it is clear that Europeans are not, in my mothers words, clamoring for the truth of the Church as are Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans. Yet it would be unwise to give into the easy reactions of despair and despondency. Benedict was right to begin his papacy with the quintessentially Christian phrase Be not afraid...
...acting in “The Oresteia” is excellent. Jack E. Fishburn’s ’08 Agamemnon is riveting in his tortured grandeur; his rage and despair tears through the scenery. As Clytemnestra, Erica R. Lipez ’05 swings plausibly from vengeance-crazed virago to shrill housewife (one of the production’s conceits is the coy use of Americana nuclear-family trappings). Lauren L. Jackson ’07, as the Leader of the Furies, exudes menace and dances wonderfully; Scottie Thompson ’05, as the doomed Trojan seer...