Word: forlorned
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Such are the scenes of morning in the scandal-scarred spring of 1987. Lamentation is in the air, and clay feet litter the ground. A relentless procession of forlorn faces assaults the nation's moral equanimity, characters linked in the public mind not by any connection between their diverse dubious deeds but by the fact that each in his or her own way has somehow seemed to betray the public trust: Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, Michael Deaver, Ivan Boesky, Gary Hart, Clayton Lonetree, Jim and Tammy Bakker, maybe Edwin Meese, perhaps even the President. Their transgressions -- some grievous and some...
...five-finger exercise with a knife spiked through the hand. To their old fascination with Sunbelt pathology, to their side-winding Steadicam and pristine command of screen space, the Coens have added a robust humor, a plot that keeps outwitting expectations and a surprising dollop of sympathy for their forlorn kidnapers...
...believed, the two are "totally in love" and on their honeymoon; if Bing's court-appointed protectors are to be believed, Bing, a widower and childless, is being victimized by a mentally confused woman. Whatever the legal resolution may be, the beach tableau of this forlorn couple in their palm- fringed haven, with meager funds and not many friends, seemed ineffably...
...strings to get his daughter into a dance company has nasty overtones of political collaboration. Even the smallest details are shrewdly familiar: the bored, hollow-eyed bureaucrat who processes Devin out of prison ("You got a red-tag file . . . It's probably screwed up, most of 'em are"); a forlorn production of The Fantasticks in an underheated school auditorium; a family bickering over dinner about the squatters camping out on their farmland...
...film which is neither very amusing nor very thought-provoking. Indeed, it is difficult to see what Allen was hoping for with Radio Days. The bleak seriousness that he offered as proof of his new maturity in Interiors gives way in Radio Days to saccharin nostalgia, the type of forlorn longing for the `good ol' days' that could most generously be labelled "poignantly...