Word: vaines
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...like the movie; their lust for dinolore appears to be insatiable. But the rest of us will yearn for Robin Williams' giddy goofing in Aladdin. And the narrative alertness of Toy Story 2. As James Newton Howard's nonstop score pushes us to an emotional involvement, we hope in vain that Barney will pop out from behind a rock. Alas, someone else holds the copyright...
...democracy. And because it's a vote for a not particularly serious position, Labor supporters feel they can vote against the government without strengthening the hand of the Conservatives." Still, the slap-down has to sting Blair, who invested a considerable amount of his own political capital in a vain bid to shut out Livingstone. But that's the kind of adversity on which the insurgent Livingstone has always thrived, and Blair's efforts simply turned the election into a referendum on his efforts to override the choice of the Labor membership. "Livingstone's a great, colorful campaigner...
...tried all my life to avoid dysfunctional people, and I wound up seeing all of them in one motion picture. I paid good money and spent two hours sitting in the dark like a captive, waiting to be rescued by some redeeming goodness--in vain. That was my experience of seeing American Beauty! R. FREDERICK GRACE Alhambra, Calif...
...Kerasiotes committed a cardinal sin of public management: he considered his own interests before those of the public to whom he was responsible. Rather than admit that he could not hold the Big Dig to budget, Kerasiotes chose to hide the overruns in the vain hope that he could find some way to bring the project to the black. Eventually he became desperate in his attempts to hold onto his job and turned to dishonest financial reporting...
...most notably through the chorus of Professional Bridesmaids, led by Susannah Graves '03 in the role of Zorah, who are all desperately waiting for Rose to get married so that they, too, can soon partake in wedded bliss. For the meantime, their engaging singing and dancing relieves them of vain longings for marriage, although by the end of the show Zorah seems to have found herself a mate, and one assumes that the other seven Bridesmaids will soon follow. The Bridesmaids shine in the ensemble numbers, such as their opening song "Fair is Rose," as well as in "Welcome, gentry...