Word: lamentations
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...surprising in a time of apparent peace and prosperity to find such personal anguish welling up in response to Robertson's lament for a nation sliding into evil, or to Jackson's claim that white as well as black Americans were being victimized by a system that favored "merging corporations, purging workers and submerging our economy." This was a populism not derived so much from present economic distress as from uneasiness about the future, about the world of debt, of drugs, of illiteracy, of poor jobs or no jobs, that Americans will be leaving their children...
...surprisingly, the part of Eva is the musical and emotional center of the show, and Jacqueline Sloan more than lives up to the challenge. From her first appearance as a scheming 15-year-old to her last pain-filled lament while dying of cancer, Sloan dominates the stage. When she finishes the show's signature song, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," the whole audience cheers along with the descamisados. In previous musicals, Sloan has been stuck with absolutely awful scripts and worse supporting casts, but in Evita she at last has the chance to shine...
...Willie Horton and likability. Match them with all the pressing national concerns that were never seriously discussed: from the Japanese economic challenge to the plight of the underclass. As the voters trudge off to the polls with all the enthusiasm of dental patients, one can almost hear their collective lament: "What has America done as a nation to deserve an election like this...
Like the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is one of those Government agencies that everyone loves to hate. Pharmaceutical companies lament the profits they might be making if only the drug-approval process did not take so long. Desperately ill people accuse the agency of denying them experimental drugs that might offer hope for survival...
...first two segments are prayers, one a confession with Bogosian down on his knees in a spotlight as if he is kneeling in a confessional. The second is a kind of junkie's lament. In the latter, Bogosian deftly adopts a surreal street patter ending in a simple amen. Both are supplications to the audience. Bogosian is asking for forgiveness and understanding...