Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Which is where the mind games come in because, of course, it is impossible to watch such intensely political statements and scenarios unfold without drawing rather forlorn comparison between their unquestionable moral stance and the tangled feelings established unionism evokes today. Program notes from the director insist, a little stridently, that "Cradle is not a period piece." and make a valiant attempt to focus on the play's anti-jingoism as an issue still desperately topical in the 1980s. But it doesn't really work, because the political issue gives the play its power; no spectator could respond emotionally...
...never find out just why James Shapiro is out there, a forlorn pedestrian on the road in the middle of Nebraska. But this lonely, displaced New Yorker has something to say about being alone, and the phenomenon of a man challenging himself, running for running's sake...
...Stockman as saying, a rather serious admission for anyone working in economics, let alone the chief architect of a revolutionary fiscal policy. Reagan's opponents have certainly made the most of the opportunity Stockman's indiscretions offered them; but neither the voices of anger or mirth can hide certain forlorn echoes. Stockman's remark that supply-side theory served as a "Trojan Horse" for old Republican doctrines could hardly prove devastating in a world where ideas and careful thinking count more than images and the impression they create. His charges are hardly new, for they mirror perfectly the opinions...
...decent, generous and wise." By this time John was married to Shyla, had a son and was just about making ends meet by bartending in Iowa City and selling peanuts and banners at college football games. In The Water-Method Man, a wily spoof of academe, he offered a forlorn description of the job: "I lug a large plywood board from gate to gate around the stadium. The board is wide and tippy with an easel-type stand; the wind blows it down; tiny gold footballs are scratched, buttons chip, pennants wrinkle and smudge. I get a commission...
...reminiscent of the '60s, or of the old days of the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. But the exercises have been a bit forlorn. Last March, an ex-Marine named James Hopkins crashed his Jeep into the lobby of a West Los Angeles Veterans Hospital and blasted away at the walls with a pistol and rifle, screaming that he was losing his mind because of Agent Orange. Two months later, he was found dead with a jug of whisky and an empty pill bottle beside him. A former artillery sergeant, Steve Androff, 33, went on last week with...