Word: wretchedness
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Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, to call it by its rightful name, powerfully reimagines this Victorian myth for the age of AIDS. Dracula (Gary Oldman) is a warrior-wooer impaled on the cross of his love; he must track his obsession until he is released from it. His misery gives...
Why remember this wretched period in our nation's history? Diamond offers a compelling reason in his conclusion: so it will not happen again.
My memories of first year are empty of classical music jam sessions and parties as cool as the one thrown last week. Mostly I remember being unable to get past the crowds on the stairs due to Saturday night parties, comparing wretched foreign language experiences with friends, meeting debutantes for...
The difference is, Gore asked to be subject to the image mill, and so did Quayle. It's politics as usual for them. But Chelsea Clinton never wanted to be a star. It seems an unfortunate fate for a very normal 12-year-old. As if adolescence weren't wretched...
And so, in this reduced age, people are discombobulated by the prospect of fussing with a masterwork such as the Guggenheim. It is, after all, the greatest American architect's best-known building. And yet the Guggenheim's very singularity has always made it a wretched place to show pictures...