Word: heartbreaking
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...over, he passionately pleaded, amnesty is an "act that only a strong, confident and just nation can bestow. You cannot demand amnesty. You cannot threaten amnesty. Amnesty is given. The insecure, the mean, the confused cannot grant amnesty. Now is the time to begin mending the heartbreak and wounds left...
South African-born Writer Dan Jacobson built a small but solid reputation dealing with what he knew best: the politics and heartbreak of apartheid, the sour loneliness of race supremacy, and love shattered by cultural collision, and the moral and intellectual conflicts of exile. Jacobson is now 45, and he moved to England permanently in 1954. Three years ago after the tread on these original themes had begun to wear a little thin, Jacobson seemed to take a fresh fictional start and produced his best novel. Called The Rape of Tamar, it was an ironic retelling of the Old Testament...
...starter's gun sounded at high noon, the runners crowded their way past the old Congregational Church, wound down a country lane, and then began to string out along Route 135. As the front runners passed through the outlying suburbs and headed toward Newton and its infamous Heartbreak Hill, a wickedly long climb six miles from the finish line in Boston, they were cheered on by more than 500,000 spectators lining the route. Children darted into the street offering slices of oranges and cups of Gatorade; one homeowner charitably placed his lawn sprinkler in the middle...
...course stretches 26 miles, 385 yards, from Hopkinton past admiring Wellesley College females, up Heartbreak Hill to the screaming Eagles of Boston College and then down to the Prudential Center. Boston Mayor Kevin White will be waiting there with a laurel wreath and a bowl of beef stew--but no kisses--for the lucky winner...
...Benson). The girl is called Cheryl (Ayn Ruymen), a name that can be pronounced correctly only while cracking gum, and she is in for a bad time. Not only do the tenants stalk her and spook her, but her passion for a rather creepy photographer risks more than simple heartbreak. The movie is rather delirious camp, wonderfully photographed by Andrew Davis and directed by Paul Bartel with the fervor of a carny barker at a freak show...