Word: vaines
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...permanent; it is the physical isolation of his wheelchair. America's image was sullied in Vietnam; Kovic's ruined body is the crying proof of this. He had believed that there was honor in serving one's country, and there was. But the war taught him it was in vain. He recalls in the third person...
...Daily News's Gerald Nachman jests that Carter has also given an interview to Penthouse, admitting that the candidate "not only coveted his neighbor's wife but also his house, his servant, his ass and his ox," and that he took the Lord's name in vain four times while in the Navy. "Well, nobody's perfect," Nachman imagines Carter explaining, "but sometimes I come pretty doggone close." Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko has an admission of his own about hust on the lustings: "I, too, have looked at women with lust. While wearing dark...
Such a sequence reassures film people that the huge risks inherent in their game need not be in vain and that they are not presiding over the final agony of an industry that has been in decline for over a quarter of a century...
...many things to too many people can deprive a family of its own integrity. Such is the theme of Frank Hogan's recent play Finn MacKool, in which campaigning is equated with the devil's own work. Under a satanic compulsion they are too vain to resist, a Kennedy-like family drives one member after another into the hell of politics. In fact, campaigning is more purgatory than hades, and families are more likely to be consumed by television coverage than hellfire. Still, the extensive use of the family as campaigners smacks of cynical exploitation, a show-business...
...been right about our wide ranging possibilities, but had not foreseen the fact that we might be paralyzed by them. With the experts of the world waiting expectantly for glorious achievements, how could we possibly disappoint them? And so we struggled forward, constantly shifting our choices, searching in vain for a fate that might be worthy...