Word: bereft
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...request of the star Belle Baker, Berlin had written a song for her to interpolate into an otherwise all-Rodgers-and-Hart score for the Broadway musical "Betsy." The song, "Blue Skies," was the show's biggest hit.) George Gershwin's death inspired a thoughtful poem from the bereft Berlin...
...covered, and nicely revamped as rockabilly, by the Everly Brothers; the third ("My covers, they feel like lead/ And my pillow, it feels like stone/ Well I?ve tossed and turned so every night/ I?m not used to bein? alone") stands as the potent plaint of a man bereft...
...colonialism by proxy, successive generations have increasingly seen the drug as a vestigial tradition, as antiquated as foot binding or entrail reading. The Cultural Revolution obliterated mainland China's opium scene. Hong Kong's last opium den shut down in the '70s, and even famously dissolute Bangkok is reportedly bereft of a working opium den, the pipes consigned to antique stalls at the Saturday flea markets. The fast-lane kids of Asia's supercities prefer to get their kicks smoking speed or swallowing Es. Opium is grandpa's drug...
...Feng's unapologetic portrayal of a consumer-obsessed, spiritually bereft China dismays Beijing's snobby culture mandarins: They prefer gilded, high-art films, and the fact that Feng's proletarian movies actually make money is seen as doubly galling. "We are shocked by Feng's superficial motives, outdated film skills and astonishing lack of creativity," sniffs Beijing film critic Wang Zhen. "It falls under the banner of commercial filmmaking...
...comes to appreciate David's virtues; he has no flaws, except that he is not "orga" (organic) but "mecha" (mechanical)--and not Martin. From a closet she retrieves an old supertoy, a stuffed bear named Teddy, who becomes David's most faithful companion. Soon David is calling her Mommy. Bereft of her only natural child, she cradles this artificial one. Bathed in Nativity light, mother and child melt into a Pieta...