Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life is a ceaseless, sickening debate about the war. Even in Mexico, at a kind of seraglio for impotent veterans, he finds little sympathy among his own crippled kind. He looks into the angry face of his buddy Charlie (Willem Dafoe) and finds a mirror of his own grotesque despair. He has hit bottom...
...Daniels, though too fresh-faced as the blue-collar father, brings hot-tempered passion to the role. And Lahti, possibly the best actress in America working in TV (she won an Emmy nomination for her performance in the mini-series Amerika), is truly heartbreaking. She can convey both the despair lurking behind a brave comment to her husband and a pathetic joy at ever smaller victories. "You guys, look!" she gasps on first ^ seeing their decrepit bathroom in the welfare hotel. "Privacy!" In the controversy over fact vs. fiction, real artistry can settle a lot of debates...
...bringing succor to the poor and dying of Calcutta and Kalighat, Mother Teresa finds richness in utter poverty and hope in the darkest corners of despair...
...incessant arguments between Boesman and Lena begin almost immediately. Alone and homeless, as in the past, they turn on one another in anger and despair. Some of the verbal attacks are faintly amusing but can inspire no more than a nervous laugh from the audience...
Calm had returned by the time Pope John Paul II appeared. In the first major papal statement on AIDS, the Pontiff called on governments "to develop and carry out a worldwide plan to combat AIDS and drug addiction." He urged patients not to despair and condemned "every form of discrimination" against them. But he warned against "morally illicit" methods of preventing AIDS -- a clear allusion to condoms -- and spoke of "abuse of sexuality," referring to homosexuality, as a cause of the spreading of AIDS. He said the crisis results from "immunodeficiency" in values...