Word: hopelessness
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...Michael Tolkin doubtless did when he was pitching The New Age, that they are perfect exemplars of chic anomie as it manifests itself in postmodern -- or postrational -- Los Angeles. You could also argue, as people whose malls don't yet contain an Issey Miyake boutique might, that they are hopeless twits...
While technically a team game, baseball, especially for the majority of consumers whose teams are hopeless in August, creates excitement by showcasing the accomplishments of individuals. Networks were salivating at the possibility of a New York-Los Angeles Series, but you can bet that the games in which Williams hit homers 58, 59, and would sell advertising as well...
When F. Scott Fitzgerald pronounced his famous definition of a first-rate intelligence -- the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time and still function -- he offered an example the Clinton Administration seems to have taken to heart. "One should be able to see that things are hopeless," Fitzgerald wrote, "and yet be determined to make them otherwise." That could be a job qualification for White House aides. In a summer when health-care reform has run into one deadly obstacle after another, the Administration never abandoned its line that all things were still possible...
Garry's inability, in the first act, to articulate or finish his thoughts with anything but a "well, you know," comes back to haunt him as "Nothing On" strays farther from its course. His vague gestures and unfinished thoughts, sweetly endearing in rehearsals, mark him as a hopeless ad libber, degenerating from his tag "you know" to a helpless "who knows?" by the third act when the play no longer resembles its script. Garry's realization of his plight is the image of very actor's nightmare as, sweat pouring down his face, he stares out at the beady eyes...
...Outfield, a remake of a dryer, less hungrily sentimental 1952 movie of the same title. A moment before he is abandoned, young Roger asks his father when they might become a family again. "When the Angels win the pennant," the father says. He is talking about the more hopeless of the Los Angeles baseball teams. That night Roger offers up prayers, and seraphim respond. With their help, the Angels start winning. Only Roger can see the small-a angels, and so he is needed to tell the perpetually riled-up manager (Danny Glover) what moves to make when they...