Word: vaines
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...walked 20 blocks, past bloody survivors and jet parts, until he saw the street in front of the store. It was a mountain of detritus. He searched in vain, then called his voice mail. Guzman had left a message saying once again she was staying put, as instructed. "I lost all hope when I heard that," he says...
...acting lacked serious experience and needless to say, I did not get the part. However, Daren still invited me to come as an extra. So, last Sunday I traveled to Newton to be a part of Exclusive, with the desire to see how films are created and the vain hope of being in a movie. Here is a diary of my 15, er four, minutes of fame...
Sedaris' usual target is himself--vulnerable, vain, afflicted with bad habits and perpetually defending his sacred right to self-destruct in peace. Compared with him, Woody Allen is a rock of psychological stability. In one of his best essays, A Plague of Tics, Sedaris recounts his obsessive-compulsive youth as a ritual footstep counter and doorknob toucher. Unlike the urban neurotics of the Allen school, he's a boy from the suburbs whose pH balance has gone acidic. Sedaris is gloriously bratty. Current events and politics don't interest him; he's a born consumer with no regrets, whose highest...
...Whether we follow his courageous lead by giving blood, sending food or providing comfort to our friends and loved ones, we are all helping to speed the recovery process. Consequently, we can say with certainty that the deaths of these emergency personnel were needless, but they were not in vain...
...brightly colored traditional tais cloths. With little political experience, and a winding down of the U.N. and international presence that has overseen the reconstruction effort so far, they can expect massive tasks?and expectations. "Independence will mean nothing, and all the sacrifices and deaths and suffering will be in vain, if, in 10 to 15 years we do not improve a little the living conditions of our people," says Xanana Gusm?o, the former resistance leader who looks certain to become his nation's first President. Is East Timor ready for self-government? After centuries of colonialism and repression...