Word: lament
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bogus prosperity on their collateral, holds the stage splendidly. The handsome duplex set by Designer Valery Levental is a sky- above, mudslinging-below construct. But beyond the "aria portraits" that graphically limn each of the principal characters, Dead Souls contains every cliche in the state manual, including the obligatory lament for the suffering people that has been a staple at least since Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. The opera has just enough technique to work and not enough heart to make anyone care...
...Yellow Wind vividly portrays Jewish- Arab tensions in the West Bank. -- Coming of age in World War II. -- An investor' s lament...
...think most people realize the change that the F.M.L.N. has undergone. It has learned that this war is going to be won through political, not military, processes." The right, as expected, began brandishing its swords at Zamora and Ungo. An anonymous threat appeared in El Diario: "Do not lament when people, acting out of desperation, take justice into their own hands, and we find ourselves in the middle of a civil war for which you and Duarte's Christian Democrats will be to blame...
...testament to his creed that "good policy is good politics." It began slowly. After the Congressman won a second term, his staff convened at his suburban Washington home for what they presumed would be a victory party. They discovered instead that Gephardt had called the session to lament the lack of new laws with his name on them, an astonishing attitude for someone who had spent only two years in the House. Eventually he focused on two issues: the Bradley-Gephardt tax-reform bill and the Gephardt trade amendment. In each instance, Gephardt helped fashion new solutions to complicated problems...
...reckless sex in the back seat of a limo and climaxes in death and betrayal. No Way Out keeps escalating past passion into mortal power struggles, in which the guilty are forever eliminating the slightly less guilty. But the film rescores, in melodrama's high pitch, the lament of any bright woman with a healthy carnal appetite: Why do men insist that you be either Donna Reed or Donna Rice...