That wasn't a very misery-filled season.
No one who lives in a city is unaware of the very visible misery of homeless alcoholics or low grade antisocial behaviour.
And who better than Luke Haines, rock music's perennial underachiever, its king curmudgeon, to pen Britpop's very own misery memoir?
As he wrote in his "Christian Discourses" of this, the one sheltering interior adequate to his very public misery, "Here in God's house, everything is so still, so safe".
Today they are united in very public misery.
It made for a very close company: misery loves company.
But they seemed to be the very picture of misery.
"I'm very good at misery and death," he said.
Above all, Dolan urges, remember that happiness, unlike money, isn't very fungible: tolerating misery for years in the hope of a bigger happiness payoff later almost never works.
Colors had become so confrontational under Oliviero Toscani, who started the magazine in 1991, that it seemed to defeat the original mission, which was to bring a sense of social responsibility to Benetton's $2 billion-a-year apparel line "It has been very focused on misery and pain," said Mr. Andersen, promising that future issues would be a blend of old Life magazine and National Geographic.
By any standards, Haiti represents a very great concentration of misery and dashed hopes, having "undergone 32 coups" since independence in 1804.
