Word: laments
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Diarrheal diseases are the second leading killer of young children in the developing world, but a simple remedy costs a tiny fraction of medications for big-name illnesses. Our report on the challenges of delivering treatment prompted readers to lament the lack of clean water and the abundance of human beings...
...Mama” flirts with cabaret punk, with a level of success that depends completely on how much you like 1) that sub-genre and 2) Liza Minelli, who guest stars. “I Don’t Love You” is a guitar-driven lament that reaches almost Nickelbackian proportions of blandness...
...mainstream media continues to lament legendary New York City punk club CBGB’s overdue demise, as if anyone even peripherally involved with underground music still cares about a venue that stopped booking punk shows...
...album opens in medias res with “The Crane Wife #3,” the sensuous and sorrowful conclusion of a three-part epic based on a Japanese myth. Singer-songwriter Meloy’s repeated lament, “I will hang my head / hang my head low” sets the tone for album’s folk-rock journey through tales of calamity, personal loss, and unsavory deeds...
...word left to be added to the vast canon of postcolonial literature-no more stern apologia from superannuated officials, no more sobbing memoirs of privileged childhood from the waifs and strays of empire-along comes a work that is neither a defense of colonialism nor a veiled lament for its passing. The glib assumption one first makes of Peter Moss's No Babylon-coming as it does from British Hong Kong's former propaganda chief-is that it will be the kind of memoir any undergraduate seminar could destroy in minutes, excoriating an Orientalist cliché here, seizing upon...