Word: hopelessness
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Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern do nothing. They spend their time waiting, watching others, now sucked into the hurly-burly of the Danish court, now spat out. Director Arzhang Kamarei generates this hopeless tone from the outset: to the thundering strains of Mission Impossible theme song, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern race furiously round the stage on hobby horses. This wild dance builds to a galloping climax as the music ends, and then...nothing. As always, R and G rush around achieving diddly squat...
...were being evoked half a continent away, in Poland, where preparations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising were under way. In 1943, 60,000 Jewish survivors of starvation and deportation -- roughly the same number as those trapped in Srebrenica -- confronted Nazi troops in a final, hopeless battle. Back then the outside knew little and could do less about what was afoot. But the horror of the last days of Srebrenica could not be ignored by a world kept abreast of every twist and turn in the bloody Bosnian conflict. Despite a hardened stance forged...
...kicked a man (Liu Pei Qi) where it hurts. But Qiu Ju (Gong Li), the man's wife, is hurt mainly in the pride, and she resolves to get satisfaction for this slur. The local public-security bureau agent, Mr. Li (Ge Zhi Jun), a reasonable politician in a hopeless situation, tells the chief to pay Qiu Ju and her husband 200 yuan in reparation. When she comes to the chief for the payment, he strews 20 10-yuan notes on the ground. "You'll bow your head to me 20 times," he snorts, "and then we'll be even...
...care. Every so often, the case of an anencephalic baby who is to be taken off life support gets publicity. This inevitably occasions the grotesque spectacle of right-to-life zealots trying to adopt the baby to prove that it is worth millions of dollars to treat such a hopeless case. To them, I say this: offer to pay for the care, too. They should save their abundant crocodile tears for the less glamorous, but all-too-common case of an uninsured youngster who must fear a simple sore throat or broken limb...
Under the polished surface of his pop-star persona, Sting is a hopeless romantic, obsessed with the gritty, contradictory textures of human emotion. During the early 1980s, as the lead singer and lyricist for the Police, the brooding bassist used his poetic gifts to dredge up the debris of his own psyche -- and sell millions of records. After going solo in 1985, he injected jazz and politics into the polyrhythmic mix, but his worldly concerns never strayed far from the ardent diplomacy of love...