Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that echoes through Beckett's work: the human need to keep replaying our own life stories, no matter how hopeless the tales. In Ohio Impromptu (one of the plays at the Clurman), two gray-haired, black-robed figures sit at a table. They are called Reader and Listener, but they could be priest and communicant, doctor and patient, actor and audience. The Reader intones a mysterious narrative that is in fact the history of their relationship. When the text ends, the Listener will be left alone forever. And so, like a child before bedtime, he begs the Reader never...
...menacing after being embarrassed by the Huskies. The Crimson fresh from a 4-1 victory over Yale on Saturday at Bright was in no mood to save the Cardinals from their own ineptitude and vented a little of their Beanpot frustration at the expense of the rather helpless and hopeless hosts...
...rooftops of New York City crowded with men howling the names of women whose unlisted phone numbers they have lost; the air around the Manhattan Bridge filled with the falling bodies of suicidal lovers; a service that rents cardboard cutouts of celebrities to fill up the room when a hopeless bachelor tries to give a party. A pity Director Arthur Hiller could not sustain such a high level of lunacy throughout this adaptation of Bruce Jay Friedman's pop-classic meditation on how urban realities undermine our urbane fantasies. If he had, unlikely adjectives like Felliniesque might...
...shot seats at a hockey game or a figure-skating competition, but there is just no way to watch more than a fragment of a ski race in person. Ski jumping is splendid for eyeball-viewing?all those figures flying through the air?but the races are hopeless. Flat or steep, it does not matter; you pick a good turn and watch the bodies come over the hill or out of the trees, zip, zip. Did you see Bill Koch or Phil Mahre make his move? Not a chance, unless you were back at the hotel watching on the tube...
...millionaire many times over, Hambrecht has personal stakes in numerous firms. But no sooner does he make money on a stock than he risks it again. "I'm a hopeless addict to investing in early-stage companies," he says. "I once had a stock that paid a dividend, and I hated...