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...about it, if it wanted to make us contemplate courageously, or even just wryly, the endgame that all of must eventually play, it might have been a very useful exercise. But to find brave and authentic good cheer - which can certainly include romance if you get lucky - on the drear side of life requires a wit and wisdom that is beyond the powers of this truly tasteless movie to summon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex and the Retirement Set | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

...lovely,” I said. High above us, the tire swing rope creaked against the tree branch, sighed, and creaked again. He said: “But now I only hear/ Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,/ Retreating, to the breath/ Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear/ And naked shingles of the world...

Author: By Phobe Kosman, | Title: As on a Darkling Plain | 12/20/2004 | See Source »

...almost out of office, without the Nobel. Is the Middle East too much for even Clinton's resilient and conciliatory shmooze? I think of the shrewd imperialist Kipling: "At the end of the fight is a tombstone white/ with the name of the late deceased./ And the epitaph drear: A fool lies here/ Who tried to hustle the east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Scorpion Logic Again in the Middle East | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

Another You focuses on the emotional messes that ensnare Marshall and, before him, his father Miles. The latter engineered a menage a trois that warped the lives of two women. His drear tale is told through letters--printed in Beattie's trademark italics--that he wrote to his young mistress. The subject matter ranges from inviting her advice on buying a dog to callous admonitions: "You must promise not to write me again in haste, as it causes me great pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: TROUBLE IN ACADEMIA | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

Viet Nam had a genius for surprise, an exquisite gift for defeating ! expectations. Rudyard Kipling once issued a sort of regional warning about that: "And the end of the fight is a tombstone white/ with the name of the late deceased,/ And the epitaph drear: 'A Fool lies here who/ tried to hustle the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: A Bloody Rite of Passage | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

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