Word: hopeless
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they know - these dear, oddly believable creatures - that all is sham and vanity, that even though the studio insists on changing the title of their film to a more central American holiday (Home for Thanksgiving) that their cause is hopeless? You'd think they would if they examined the film's key dramatic premise (that long-lost daughter - Parker Posey - is bringing her lesbian lover home to the family). You'd think they might see through the hype, since largely represented by the divinely clueless hosts of a syndicated Entertainment Tonight TV show (Fred Willard and Jane Lynch...
...problems the party faces. But regardless of their level of understanding, recovery will take time. Republicans cannot pretend that simply disavowing prior errors of judgment and promising a fresh start will instantly solve their problems. The credibility gap that Congressional Republicans’ corruption, arrogance, ineptitude, and hopeless defense of the Bush administration has created is simply too great. The negative impact of the past can only be erased with time...
...weapons development, Saddam Hussein's defiance of 17 U.N. resolutions, Hizballah's defiance of at least three, the U.N. does nothing. Not because the U.N. bureaucracy, its member states or their diplomats are corrupt or evil. Corrupt and evil many of them are, but the reason the U.N. is hopeless is that the central idea it was supposed to embody--"collective security"--is an illusion...
...nearly perfect: relentlessly percussive, and affecting without being sappy. As if that weren’t enough, David Bowie performs a guest benediction on “Province.”Digital, mechanical, and organic elements are combined to make a sound that is dark without being hopeless, propulsive without being stupid. It may sound hyperbolic, but the closest point of comparison is Radiohead’s “OK Computer.” Both albums use technology as a backdrop for an album about desolation, although TV on the Radio are more viscerally appealing, less nerdy, have better...
...seems hopeless. How can the newspaper industrysurvive the Internet? On the one hand, newspapers are expected to supply their content free on the Web. On the other hand, their most profitable advertising--classifieds--is being lost to sites like Craigslist. And display advertising is close behind. Meanwhile, there is the blog terror: people are getting their understanding of the world from random lunatics riffing in their underwear, rather than professional journalists with standards and passports...