Word: heartbreaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE...
...forehead, and sideburns frame his petulant, full-lipped face. His style is partly hillbilly, partly socking rock 'n' roll. His loud baritone goes raw and whining in the high notes, but down low it is rich and round. As he throws himself into one of his specialties-Heartbreak Hotel, Blue Suede Shoes or Long Tall Sally-his throat seems full of desperate aspirates ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi luh-huh-huh-huv yew-hew") or hiccuping glottis strokes, and his diction is poor. But his movements suggest, in a word...
Gingerich started his summer with a heartbreak. An expert on Conpernicus' "De Revolutionibis [Concerning the Revolutions]" that first proposed that the earth rotates around the sun, rather than the reverse. Gingerich seizes every opportunity to examine the rare work. In June, he arrived in Hamburg, Germany, on his way to a scientific symposium just 24 hours after the auctioning of an unexamined copy...
...Heartbreak Disease...
...Everyone talks about guilt feelings when they have to institutionalize a person they love," says Frank Holmes, the retired Boston businessman whose wife is in a nursing home. "It's not guilt I feel, it's heartbreak." -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Chicago and Sue Wymelenberg/Boston