Word: heartbreaking
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...Logan's staging nowhere intrudes a jarring present-day touch. Though the swarming street and cafe passages have hurly, and sometimes burly too, the more intimate scenes are all played largo, with silences like swelling organ notes, stares into space that pulse with tension, and pauses aquiver with heartbreak...
...written a story that might have been just another garrulous memoir in which an old lady shows her medals except for the familiarity with which she evokes the world of the pre-1914 British aristocracy. It was the era that G. B. Shaw in one of his plays dubbed Heartbreak House...
...shakeup in varsity performances can be partly explained by Van Cortlandt Park itself. Poor footing and the gruelling "Heartbreak Hill" are a challenge to runners used to the smooth and rolling Franklin Park course. And the unusually warm, dry day may have caused many of the unimpressive varsity performances. But inability to master Van Cortlandt could be a serious problem, since both the Heptagonals and IC4A meets will be held there--and against several teams for whom the Park is a "home course...
...south-central Alaska. This was the promised land-promised by the wide-eyed Federal Emergency Relief Administration to depression-ridden, red-blooded American families who wanted to leave home and make their way, in fine old American tradition, against the wilderness. This was May 11, 1935, a day of heartbreak...
...each other. He (Vittorio De Sica) is a rentless wreck of an Italian nobleman named Conte Dino della Fiaba (Count Fib). She (Marlene Dietrich) is an enchantress who has come full Circe and now finds herself with nothing to her name but a title, Marquise Maria de Crevecoeur (Lady Heartbreak). She thinks he's rich, he thinks she's rich, and it all makes a pleasant little comedy of errors until suddenly the script makes an error that is not funny in the least. It introduces an American millionaire (Arthur O'Connell) who does almost nothing...