Word: lamentations
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...which opened on Broadway last week, is that it eventually indulges in just such a fawning congratulation of the ticket holders. The show's strength is that for most of the way it is an acerbic send-up of the current national selfishness, coupled with a knowing and ungooey lament for the loss of '60s innocence. It is hard not to like a show that says, "I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain." Almost anyone can be touched by the folly and sweetness of a man who wears a T shirt reading WHALES...
...losing side of all three disputes. Denouncing the court's "fastidious disdain for religion," Secretary of Education William Bennett complained that the latest rulings will make it "vastly more difficult to provide education service to some of America's neediest schoolchildren." Bennett's view echoed the lament of dissenting Chief Justice Warren Burger, who wrote in the New York case that "it borders on paranoia to perceive the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of Rome lurking behind programs that are just as vital to the nation's schoolchildren as textbooks...
...GSAS). The result of the Strauch Committee's several months' work has recently been made public. Although their suggestions include issues as provocative as reallocation of university funds (increasing reorganizing the administration, little discussion has been generated thus far. As graduate students who reported to the Strauch Committee, we lament this and hope that the report will be more widely read and openly debated among the university community. Discussion is particularly vital because of the report's occasionally self-congratulatory content. It is the product of many minds; contradictions on basic issues have survived unresolved in the final version...
...depth that allows him to appeal to your sympathy one minute and kick you in the balls the next. No song on this new disk exemplifies this better than the first one, "When The Spell Is Broken." The minor chords issuing from Thompson's twangy, vibrettoed guitar rumble and lament like a Scottish funural dirge, and his solo swoops gracefully and reverently around them. The words, though, are pure vitriol, worthy of an especially pissed-off Dylan or a younger Graham Parker. The extremity of its despair makes this song frightening, with appropriately violent references to love letters that...
...invigorated by the new challenge. His oxfords glisten with the kind of shine only a former Marine lieutenant colonel can give them. He's charging uphill, the way he did at Okinawa. "No school solutions here," he has muttered to intimates in the White House, invoking a Marine battlefield lament when they faced situations never covered in training. "Some say I can't really succeed in this political environment, and maybe they are right," he once mused. He does not believe that at all. He'll win, or fall among piled-up corpses...