Mr. Milosevic told Fox News that he was sorry lives were lost in Kosovo but was proud of what he did for his country.
Without the assistance of those who chose to embrace maturity instead of fleeing it, our lovebirds would have been too busy Dumpster diving to whine about their sorry lives.
A teasing peek into the sometimes sorry lives of others, "The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear" takes us to Georgia, the war-torn former Soviet republic, and introduces us to people with more hopes than possessions.
Maybe I'm just getting used to this stuff, but the vicious physical punishment that Burke's characters inflict on one another isn't as wounding as the words they choose to express their bitter thoughts about their sorry lives.
That is until such time as the sorry lives on view cease to be cause for mirth, at which point Mr. Ayckbourn brings down the curtain on as bruising a final tableau as this most prolific of writers (76 plays and counting) has ever penned.
At odds with one another and most of the world, the three siblings -- the transsexual Agnes, the sex-freak Hans-Jörg and the uptight patriarch Werner -- fumble and bumble through their bleak, sorry lives and a bleak, sorry story that the festival's program notes, hopefully and unpersuasively, describe as a "metaphor for Germany today".
In a similar vein of perversity, Stephen Sondheim's 1990 musical Assassins looks at the sorry lives of American presidential assassins, from Oswald and Lincoln's killer John Wilkes Booth, to less canonical figures such as Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and John Hinckley, who made assassination attempts, respectively, on presidents Ford and Reagan.
I caught a few episodes of Big Shots, and I see stooges with money - self involved twits who endlessly discuss their sorry lives over Scotch and cigars.
Oh, sorry, wrong live blog.
