Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bletchley, a town west of Cambridge where the secret intelligence unit has its warren. As the drama starts, Jericho has been furloughed from Bletchley because of instability, but is brought back again because his eerily acute mind is needed even if it is haunted and unraveling. Subplots involve a forlorn love interest and the burrowings of a suspected mole, but the real story, and a good one, is whether Jericho can track Enigma through the deep space of his own brain before he melts to ash. Great mathematical ability remains a snark that can't really be hunted...
...plot to put their program over before the American public has any chance to understand [it]." After storming out of a meeting with Republicans, Gibbons got into a scuffle with Republican Bill Thomas of California. On Friday, as the Ways and Means Committee met indoors, Democrats staged their own forlorn hearings in the rain outside the Capitol...
...Teer was photographed as he watched the funeral of a neighbor killed in a clash with British troops. A picture of Teer -- his face troubled by a forlorn and vulnerable look -- appeared on the cover of an issue of TIME dealing with the effects of war on children around the world. Teer still has that same lost expression today, but added to it is a tinge of fear. Last February he was abducted from in front of his home, held blindfolded for 24 hours and then severely beaten. His abductors thrust Teer's legs through the pickets of a wrought...
...This building stood happy but a little forlorn, as an attractive but unclaimed, unnamed orphan--bright, studious, charming, convivial, but still nobody's actual child, "Rudenstine said...
...hidden messages. The image of the cigarette/ phallus remains central, perhaps suggesting Merle's own doubts about his manhood. As Merle stands, patriachal, yet despairing amidst the rolling fields of tobacco, the camera shifts once again to an image of sexual negation. The Barn is a Keatsian cave of forlorn despair and homosexual repression, suggesting void on both a sexual and an ontological level. The only hint of resolution comes in the form of conversion. All seems resolved as the tobacco is mysteriously rendered into phallic triumph in the form of the omnipresent cigarette...