Word: heartbreaking
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...certainly true of the sensational "Scarsdale letter" of Jean Harris to Dr. Herman Tarnower. That letter, with its confluent currents of rhetorical cunning, heartbreak and hysteria, is a remarkable work of art. One cannot imagine Mrs. Harris dashing off a note that read: "Dear Hi. Miss you. Jean." Yet one can too easily see Tarnower writing back: "Dear Jean. Good to hear from you. Hi"-the absence of things in certain letters being more devastating than their presence in others. Nothing says more than a light, frisky note to a friend in despair...
...power, the political leviathan shrank to a minnow, indulged as the darling of his party's young hotbloods. This is the lesser half of an in-depth study in remorse. As much a philanderer as a workaholic, Kitchen neglected and betrayed his wife to the point of heartbreak and death. The memory haunts him ("Why did you die, my dear?"), and as he whimpers and then howls his wife's name twice, "Ellen ... Ellen!" toward the icy stars, the play ends in anguish...
...mile mark we encountered the first incline. Heartbreak Hill consists of three separate rises set about a mile apart. And contrary to popular belief, it wasn't the hills themselves that made our hearts sink and our legs cry out in agony, but the knowledge that after the last hill there were still six miles left...
Watch out folks, the Bounding One, the Bod, the Limey, the Mighty Mite, the Sweet Kraut, the Duck, the Stoneham Scrapper, the Heartbreak Kid, Vaya Con and Smiley...
Ellen "the Heartbreak kid" Gallagher has been running all summer and should be in good shape as should Martha "the Stoneham Scrapper" Clabby and Becky "Smiley" Rogers...