Word: woes
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...good cause, it can have a great effect. And it can inspire as it entertains. In the evening's most indelible turn, Debra Monk played a New Yorker crisscrossing the border of reason and madness. She takes comfort in the poet Thomas Gray's line: "laughing wild amidst severest woe." For those in the audience with AIDS or other diseases that have ravaged our world, the phrase not only defined this hilarious, touching evening and the canny dramatic strategy of its playwriting trio. They were words to live by--a blueprint for the theater's survival, and ours...
...bloody story reminds one of Bruce Springsteen's spare, misanthropic songs on Nebraska, or even of Raymond Carver's terse short stories. The last line in Undying Love is "now under God, we elope." And then there is a single gunshot. Nas takes no joy in his raps of woe; he's a reporter coolly relaying the madness of his world and the turmoil in his heart...
...beginning of sophomore year. The Institute chose the college's 100 most socially promising students and then ranked them in groups of 10, from the ultraprivileged to the "barely-elite." Local newspapers would publish the precise lists so all of the city could see "everybody who was anybody." Woe to those young men in the Yard far away from Gold Coast leisure and social success...
...winning kids over to become fans of homework may take more than high-tech help. Annette Bitter's seventh-graders love doing research on the laptops they got through a Microsoft study. "But of course there are always excuses," says Bitter, who keeps hearing a modern tale of woe: "The computer ate my homework...
...regard, at least. On other matters--whether it can put together an untainted administration to oversee the Games, whether it can raise enough money to support the Games, whether its reputation as an oasis of virtue in a desert of iniquity is forever forfeit--Salt Lake has nothing but woe. "We are stunned and bruised," said Utah Governor Mike Leavitt, who along with Salt Lake mayor Deedee Corradini controlled appointments to the S.L.O.C.'s board of trustees. "This does not represent the values of this community...