Word: woe
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...instead they are a prize greater than rubies. In the fight against women with skinny thighs and no love handles, they always win (hence the fantasy quality of Isaacs' fiction). Accents from Queens and Brooklyn may flavor their speech, but they are aristocrats to their wisecracking bones, and woe to the Richies, those slobs, who can't appreciate them. Because, in her fictional universe, Isaacs plays God, her vengeance is swift and funny, and her heroines live happily ever after...
...walks up to her and kisses her on the cheek. Softly. It's very sweet and utterly false -- pure show biz. It is also a warning: a kiss that could be a kick. Tears rushing down her face, Tina wails the song's first word. It is "Woe," and it sounds , like a moan from beneath the earth, from any woman who can't understand why her man treats her like he does...
...medal is just one indication that Edelman's fame is not fleeting. Early in her activist career, Edelman was oft-regarded as a harbinger of woe, a voice of unnecessary despair amidst a sea of calm...
...field where there is little drama, she has interjected some, picking fights with her designated bullies of the system, the doctors and drug companies that have been making huge profits. Every witness has his or her own horror story about getting sick, and Hillary listens as if hearing such woe for the first time. When a woman named Kathy at hearings in Iowa talks about how she is frightened that she will never lead a normal life or pay for her care, Hillary exhorts the audience, "Let's give Kathy here a big hand for that speech." An hour later...
...tasted of some heavy, acrid East European woe. Beside the woman, a Serbian political journalist -- a dandy in houndstooth jacket, wearing Jean- Paul Sartre glasses -- nodded angry agreement and flicked ashes onto the fish carcass on his plate...