Reduced to toiling as a janitor in the concert hall in which he was fired, the miserable Andrei still dreams of restoration.
Those questions seem to have occurred to a team of Italian carabinieri who showed up to help out DynCorp, which had the training contract: Before the Italians showed up at the end of January for a one-year tour, the recruits were posting miserable scores on the firing range.
Still, it meant I went away miserable and came back with fire in my belly, which is better, I guess, than tears in my eyes.
The words Alim Qasimov sang on Friday night at Asia Society were nearly five centuries old, written by a poet from Baghdad, Muhammad Fuzuli, who proclaimed, "Let my miserable heart burn in the fire of love".
Fifty years later it was losing its popularity, and the miserable end came with the fire of 1936, a conflagration so great that it could be seen in Brighton.
By the time I arrived for rehearsals, one director and two actresses had been fired for being too miserable.
Rich Rodriguez, fired last winter after a miserable 15-22 record with Michigan, will become the new Arizona coach, according to a person briefed on the decision.
And I know I am going to be running around yelling 'liar, liar, pants on fire' and making their lives miserable.
But the reality is that her boss could make her working life miserable, come up with other reasons to fire her, suddenly find her job has disappeared, and she'll be unemployed again.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The last time the Giants played at the Superdome, they were a miserable team and on the verge of firing their coach.
