Word: heartbreaker
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Lady in Satin. Billie Holiday's voice, late in her career, sounded like pure heartbreak--and it was captured beautifully on this 1958 classic...
...Kohl watched the tsunami from the third-floor balcony of his hotel room in Thalpe, Sri Lanka. "I recalled images from the war, which I experienced as a boy," Kohl wrote in the tabloid Bild. "It appeared as if after a heavy bombing raid." Amid so much death and heartbreak, there were also miracles. A 10-year-old British girl, Tilly Smith, was credited with saving 100 lives by recognizing the signs of a tsunami and sounding a warning in time to clear Maikhao Beach in Phuket. The raging waters forced an Australian mother named Jillian Searle...
These and a hundred other privileges fight for your attention. So pay attention to this congested movie miracle. The headache it gives you will vanish soon enough; it's the heartbreak you'll take home...
...would talk about it—afraid to jinx it, look too far ahead or sound cocky. There were, of course, five league games to fight through before this point. Five chances for disaster or heartbreak, where a bad bounce or an injury could make the whole thing moot anyway...
...paid with sighs a plenty/ And sold for endless rue.’/ And I am two-and-twenty,/ And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.” It was all there, our overwrought, blinding grief, our callowness, our heartbreak that was no less real for all of that...