And Gata sports newspaper joked: "The first measure that our new government has to push through on the urging of Merkel: we have to lose against Germany on Friday".
The Live newspaper quipped: "The referee should give Merkel a fright and toss a drachma coin at the beginning of the match". And Gata sports newspaper joked: "The first measure that our new government has to push through on the urging of Merkel: we have to lose against Germany on Friday". The German press has also drawn humorously on the eurozone crisis.
When the west revisits Africa or India, declaring that gays - not homosexuals - raise questions of human rights, who is to wonder if what they hear is the fundamentalist preachings from the mouths of local bishops fulminating in the frozen blood-curdling rhetoric of the early missionaries, or the urge, through pop culture, of distorted - and largely powerless - masculinity to kill "chi-chi men"?
Scrolling through Facebook I have the urge to stand and clap wildly.
In this dark hellscape we call reality, it can be hard to scroll through Twitter without having the urge to throw your laptop or cell phone into the nearest bottomless crevasse.
It is impossible to get through an episode without feeling the urge to Google something for explanation, to shed further light on their vast, catholic influences.
Like Ted Kramer's mixing up a batch of French toast through a clenched smile, sometimes the urge to reshape a tragedy into a story of hope just undermines the hope therein.
One reason for the endurance of George Stevens's film, from 1953, is the supreme equipoise that it finds between two contending impulses — the will to wander, moving restlessly through a desert land, versus the urge to take root, battling for your right to settle down and defying those who would snatch it away.
Beyond all these substantial claims on our attention, Germinal is a parable of the love hate relationship human beings have with the Earth: the death-rattle rings through it, in counterpoint to the urge we all have, until the moment of our death, to go on living.
