Word: heartbreaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, nobody peddling romance in any form seems in grave risk of unhappiness these days. Even books on sex seem to sell best when "joy" is part of the title, and a gossamer tale of juvenile heartbloom and heartbreak called Happy Days is one of the strongest-running sitcoms on the tube. Weightless romance, to be sure, has always been a TV staple, but now the lovelorn soaps have gained such a galvanized following among old and young that television can spoof itself with an unsavory parody of the genre called Soap. Public TV found out not long ago that...
...finally, the icemen enjoyed their first typically Harvard hard skating performance since the overtime heartbreak at Boston University a week ago, rallying when behind on two separate occasions to cop the victory...
...SOME TIME during freshman year, we lost our cookies. We were all trapped by freshman year, hopelessly enmeshed in a pernicious web of commitments, dreams, dilemmas, loneliness and heartbreak...
...inability to articulate her feelings. The erudite null dismisses Pomme because he mistakes her silence for ignorance, and, lest we make the same error, the movie ends with the damaged and deserted Pomme staring accusingly at the audience. It is a devastating denouement?the kind we expect from heartbreak movies ?but it is not pity for the proverbial jilted heroine that is disturbing. What Goretta forces us to confront at the end of The Lacemaker is the potential for inhumanity within ourselves. ? Frank Rich
...ensemble of fellow performers-a knack never used better than in the scatty and mellow duets (Gone Fishin', for one) that he recorded with Armstrong. A similar trait made his private life seem actually private in contrast to the typical Hollywood star's. He had his troubles, heartbreak at times in his marriage to hard-drinking Dixie Lee, who died of cancer in 1952, and again in dealing with four sons with a penchant for mischief. In 1957 he married Kathryn Grant, 30 years younger than he, and started another family. Crosby never claimed to be an exemplary...