Word: heartbreak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Hooker does stick to the blues, watch out. He peppers the blues with his biting guitar licks and genuine squeals of anguish. Indeed, it seems as if nothing goes right in his life. Hooker sings of heartbreak, airline delays and biblical floods with the typical personal torment that makes the blues so affecting...
Donnelly also gives an impressive performance as Jimmy Jack, the Fool counterpart to Dennehy's Lear. Campbell is affecting as the spurned Manus, especially in his heartbreak at finding Maire with George...
...William Gates and Arthur Agee are sports heroes and working stiffs -- magicians on the high school basketball court who stagger under the burden of producing wins (and glory and revenue) for their team. Documentarians Steve James, Fred Marx and Peter Gilbert have produced an epic of love, betrayal, heartbreak, true grit...
...about three hours long. But it moves like Isiah, fast and smooth, and it's over in a heartbreak...
Which, in and of itself, brings up an important discovery: something about the World Series tends to make us take sides, when possible turning it into a Good vs. Evil battle of demonic proportions. Even though I could never lay an honest claim to the heartbreak that IS "Red Sox Nation," watching Schiraldi, Stanley, Buckner et al. screw it all up hurt just the same...