Word: sadnesses
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...reason for the street action is the sad reality of the Putin regime long denying its opponents any legitimate public fora. The mainstream media are subdued, and "the Parliament is not a place for discussion," as the Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov succinctly put it in 2005. When people are denied the right to discuss their life on the parliament floor or in the media, they're forced into the street - and into strange alliances. The Other Russia, in fact, is an unlikely motley amalgamation: members of the traditional democratic and liberal Yabloko party; new liberal factions, The United Civic Front...
...long been a sad joke that if Putin can't raise pensions and wages for the disgruntled population, he can still resolve the problem by just giving one huge raise to the OMON. Russia's suppression machine is strong as ever, and most people still believe in their Good Czar President, even if they have lost confidence in the state institutions. Putin does not have much to fear - yet. However, if there is a lesson to draw from a history of Soviet experience, it's this: power and might don't matter much if the exhausted people lose their faith...
...like plain old nondigital stage acting. It's just lights and bare floorboards. "You don't have any boundaries," Headey says. "You don't have any emotional props. You can't do this thing of, 'Oooh, I'm going to sit on this chair because I feel sad now,' or 'I'm going to hit this!' You don't have any of that." With so much computer-generated make-believe going on, the actors' physicality is the movie's only link to the real world. To turn Hollywood pretty boys into Spartans took eight weeks of intense dieting, exercise...
...think what we saw in the process were the perimeter guys really carry them during the course of the game, and they got into a great rhythm.” This weekend also marks the final games for Crimson seniors Goffredo and Brian Darcy. While it will be sad to see Goffredo and Darcy don their Crimson jerseys for the final time, Harvard basketball aficionados can be encouraged by the younger Crimson players that will lead the team in the years to come. “I think it’s a pretty bright future, with those kids coming...
...also plagued by trite and uninspired lyrics, but the overall quality and diversity of the music makes this fact forgivable. Patrick Wolf is a competent musician, and there is some great songwriting and technical virtuosity happening here. One might view this album as the schizophrenic creation of a deeply sad man trying desperately to be happy, and there are even some moments that foreshadow a move toward the darkness of industrial music. “The Stars,” “Overture,” and “Bluebells” are the album?...