Teachers and state education officials were embarrassed last year after television footage showed scores of desperate parents and others scaling outer walls of buildings to pass books and pieces of paper to students inside taking exams.
If you're really dedicated to a TV series, you may experience withdrawal symptoms, ranging from denial that the show is ending, feeling angry about the finality, trying to convince the series producers to keep the show with a flurry of desperate emails or online petitions, then feeling very down and finally accepting that "this is it".
It was like a show trial, a band of desperate men fighting like ferrets to save their own skins.
DEVIOUS MAIDS (Lifetime, June 23 Last yearr ABC passed on this show, technically a spinoff of "Desperate Housewives," but Lifetime stepped in with a 13-episode order.
Dory's recovers Chantal's abandoned copy of "Anna Karenina," with its starry marginalia and half-bright highlighting underlining the show's running theme of desperate, questing searches.
As the second half began, the Americans showed a familiar sense of desperate urgency.
He said his wide-ranging study showed that the number of desperate young women — the ones offering the cheapest sex — appeared to be on the rise.
That show is a cruel carnival of desperate freaks wanting fame at any cost, and it's easily exploited by Cowell.
But the new show will remind viewers more of "Desperate Housewives" than of "Grey's"; there's the same uncomfortable mixture of drama, comedy, and satire, all — in the case of "Army Wives" — dipped in a big vat of sap.
While putting on a desperate show of bourgeois respectability, Yoshiro (Sei Hiraizumi), a middle-age unemployed engineer who is deeply in debt, will do almost anything to stay afloat.
