Word: despairingly
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Worse, his metaphysics overwhelms his music-the orchestra does little more than italicize the words of the speaker, and the emotional flow of the music follows the text almost sheepishly. The despair he portrays is only the despair of the prideful; drama is merely melodrama. Bernstein is a man of both cheek and genius; and in this case, the composer in him has been no more than the advocate of the showman, the charmer, the chap in the chukka boots shouting down from the balcony...
...became a fadista in the late '30s, the fados were in bad flower because of their unpleasant exaltation of poverty, disease and death. Amália, reeking of pathos, rescued the art of the fado by lifting its emotional sights to the level of pain, nostalgia and despair. Such suffering is delicious to the Portuguese, and the fados cover everything-defeated souls, wasted nights, strange shadows. Americans who have a feeling for the blues can understand the spirit of the fado, but you ain't really been blue till you've felt the fado...
...between, "8 1/2" moves with Guido through a despair that remains unresolved until the final scene. Guido's health has collapsed--he has gone to a fashionable spa in an attempt to recover; his marriage has broken down--his wife (Anouk Aimee), aware of his infidelities with a dull, bovine mistress, is ready to ask for a separation; and his creativity is at an end--he cannot get started on the film he is directing. His friends are falling away, though a mob of admirers follows him almost everywhere, firing inane questions that melt into a babble of noise...
...normal hazards faced by foreign correspondents these days range from being shot at in a helicopter over South Vietnam to the gastric despair caused by the need to entertain news sources in distinguished Paris restaurants. But among the most serious problems are the obstacles put in the reporter's path by newly independent and highly sensitive nations that talk much about freedom without necessarily practicing it. Two of our correspondents have once again experienced this in reporting the current wave of unrest in Africa (see THE WORLD...
...craggy-faced despair and large-voiced grief, Jason Robards Jr. roams the bare multileveled arena stage of the center's temporary Greenwich Village home to narrate and act out the Miller's tale in a brilliant, grueling, three-hour performance. In the beginning, there was Mom. She is an angry, unfulfilled woman whose passport to college was revoked by a family-arranged marriage with a shipping merchant whom she regards as her inferior and lashes with verbal contempt. Infused with guilt by the warring parents and wanting to make up to Mom for her frustration and unhappiness...