Word: woe
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Consider this my penance. About a year ago, I subjected readers of this column to 600 words of woe, detailing my frustrating--and ultimately fruitless--online search for a holiday getaway. This year I've cleaned up my act by cutting out the whining and focusing on real solutions. First I homed in on a single goal: figuring out how to get great deals on flights. Then I recruited a crack panel of experts--everyone from Travelocity CEO Terrell Jones to CheapTickets vice president Ron McElfresh--to help me ferret out the best insider tricks. Finally I torture-tested their...
...those yahoos, I respectfully urge them to cry me a river because I don't care. This whole woe-is-me routine surfaces every time prices go up, and I am sick...
This hasn't been a great year for the airline industry--or for the millions of travelers who have been delayed, stranded and otherwise mistreated. But the latest airline-travel woe hits passengers right where they sit: in those notoriously cramped seats. Not only are modern airline-seating arrangements woefully lacking in legroom, some believe they also may even be deadly in certain circumstances. Three passengers are suspected of having succumbed in the past month to complications stemming from sitting too long in cramped airline seats...
There should have been a disclaimer at the beginning of Al Gore's bio movie Thursday night: "No Gores were harmed in the making of this film." In his last two convention speeches, Gore famously trotted out his family's tales of woe - his son's being hit by a car in '92, his sister's death from lung cancer in '96 - so viewers could be forgiven for wondering just which Gore would have to take the hit this time around (and whether the rest weren't secretly praying for no renomination speech...
...look? To understand, you need to first look away from television. (Oh, just for a minute. You can do it.) Our culture is deep into a populist period of personal confession, the First-Person Era. There's the unflagging craze for memoirs--especially ordinary people's tales of woe, like Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Elizabeth Kim's story of orphanhood, Ten Thousand Sorrows. "I don't see any sign of them waning," says Jeff Zaleski, book-review editor of Publishers Weekly. "The high-profile memoirs by famous people haven't done well, [but] there's been...