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Hence, my disillusionment with divestment activists who call for harsh sanctions and, in the same breath, lament the violence that rips South Africa today. They are part and parcel of the same thing...
...particularly instructive Sesame Street episode, Bert and Ernie find themselves confronted with rain leaking through a hole in the roof. They lament that it is impossible to go out and fix the roof while it's still raining. Thus, they continue to get wet. When the weather finally clears, though, they decide not to bother fixing the roof, reasoning that you don't need a good roof as long as it's not raining...
...keep flies away. As they work, the nurse, the brother and the cousin remain silent, as do the rest of the men lying in nearby beds. Rahmat Hussain moans, "Pain, pain, I feel pain." Once or twice, he calls for his mother, but it is a muted, passive lament...
Elliot Loves, which opened off-Broadway last week in an elegant staging by Mike Nichols, starts with a solo lament by a middle-aged man (Anthony Heald) on the verge of proposing marriage. It ends with him and his intended (Christine Baranski) having their first really honest conversation, via the telephone. Safely alone, if groping toward connection, they engage in dialogue by means of shared soliloquy. In the middle, the woman meets the man's old high school buddies -- an encounter that the lovers interpret in opposite ways and analyze to oblivion. Feiffer deftly satirizes self-awareness and communication, even...
Soviet foreign-policy specialists, who several years ago relished debating geopolitics and ballistic-missile throw weight, would now rather lament the surfeit of nearly worthless rubles or the possibility that the Communist Party will split into two (or six or 20) new parties...