Word: despairingly
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...stock collapse of Black Monday presaged a recession. Others have argued just as vehemently that the crash was primarily a Wall Street event that will have little impact on the economy. No wonder consumers have been cautious and bewildered and the financial markets have swung wildly between hope and despair...
...work is a ringing and deeply engaged rebuke -- clumsy sometimes, and bathetic when it fails, but usually as pictorially brilliant as it is morally earnest -- to the ingrained limitations of its time. It sets its face against the sterile irony, the despair of saying anything authentic about history or memory in paint, and against the general sense of trivial pursuit that infests our culture. It is a victory for the moral imagination...
These days, Hunter has little reason to despair, and no time for a penciled- in cry. In Raising Arizona she earned the usual critical raves as canny, resilient Ed McDonnough, lullabying her purloined baby to sleep with a grotesquely poignant backwoods ballad. (Holly chose the Charlie Monroe song herself.) She is happy to keep her private life -- which she shares with Photographer John Raffo -- private. And Hunter, whose goal was always "to be one of the really respected stage actresses," doesn't mind juggling her newfound fame with rehearsals for a Los Angeles production of Sam Shepard...
...real bullets. Four protesters were killed and at least 30 wounded. Demonstrators battled troops for more than five hours. As fiery Arab protests raged through the territories, the Israelis were afraid that the violence was sparked not simply by a few rabble-rousers but by a widespread despair that will not soon fade away. Said a border police patrol leader: "It's not just terrorists. They've got no leader here...
...Shock, despair, terror and anger grip the Caribbean nation after goon squads abort balloting, leaving at least 50 civilians dead and raising troubling questions about army complicity. -- Polish voters reject a government- proposed program of economic reform and austerity. -- With the U. S.- backed rebels gaining, the Soviets seek a quick exit from Afghanistan...