Word: lament
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...escape, through sex or work, into the "shadowy sanctuary of timelessness." Without a sense of geographical belonging--Jed has rejected his Southern roots--he lacks the resources for self-definition, and his cry of homelessness "I had no place to go. Not in the world." becomes a metaphysical lament...
...score so suited to the lyrics in mood and meter that, as Fuller himself has said, "the words and music seem to have something to say to each other." When the words say "my song must adroitly change its key," and the music does, as happens in "Chaucer's Lament," it is only the most obvious working together that is everywhere between script and score. Moshell's music unravels from soft, lush chords, reminiscent of Ravel or Poulenc, to what sounds like the throaty, brassy tones of Kurt Weill with the ease of the plot itself...
...professional archeologists and linguists at Harvard and other places who were contacted for their opinion of Fell's theories, not one took him seriously, except to lament the damage they felt he was inflicting on legitimate archeological inquiry. Fell himself claims that there are experts in many European universities and museums who do believe in his work. But the American experts contacted did not recognize a single name that Fell listed. People that are described as archeologists in America B.C. and in magazine articles about Fell's work were not known to archeologists at Harvard. On investigation, they turned...
...Fiend continued his lament...
Fraudulent Dealings. Lament's sudden liquidity, federal prosecutors charged, was the result of fraudulent dealings. She allegedly obtained a $200,000 loan from a West Virginia bank. Then she struck a deal with John Barry, a Canadian who was looking for money to refinance his Toronto film studio; Barry gave her $60,000 in exchange for what he describes as a promise to raise $2 million for him from European banks. By the end of 1973 Barry had received neither his loan nor the return of his original deposit; he then alerted Stoessinger and went to the Canadian authorities...