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During this final season, Roseanne attempted the most desperate plot device of them all: She had her TV family win $108 million in the lottery, replicating her own rags-to-riches story.
Chernomyrdin got on the phone and, in a desperate and fragmented conversation broadcast live on Russian TV, negotiated the release of the hostages.
The dismal spin: Bush looks less confident and more desperate for votes.
There are moments when all artifice fails, and you realize you are regarding desperate actors, trapped on the screen, fully aware they've been left hanging out to dry."
I'm afraid not, though if one were to cross the line in an extremely obvious way, negative reaction might bubble up--but not necessarily because the guy appeared to be rude but because he would appear to be desperate.