Word: heartbreaking
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...olds, as well as celebrate Patriot's Day and the 25th anniversary of women being allowed to run in Boston's most famous annual sporting event. Tomorrow we will be two extremely sore and tired 22-year-olds, but today, as young and energetic 21'ers, we will tackle Heartbreak Hill on our way to the finish at Copley Square...
...understated direction and Dana Ivey's touching performance as Lala's stern, no-nonsense mother. She can get a laugh and evoke a lifetime of prefeminist frustration with a single line ("If I were running the Dixie Bedding Company, we'd all be rich by now") and find fresh heartbreak in the simplest lament: "I thought we were going to be happy when we grew up." That's not Hollywood schmaltz, folks; it's the real thing...
Frivolities like these further fragment the effect of the whole. In general, there's no real sense of tension or heartbreak in this production. It's there in bits and pieces, but these just doesn't fuse into the one continuously rising dramatic arc of emotion that the music so darkly promises. In the end, you feel you've just seen a series of well-sung pieces--not the complete work of art we think of as great opera...
...think [Harvard is] a great institution. It's been around for a long time, which is a testament to it," Gibson said. "But I may have caused some people some heartbreak when I was last here, from what you tell...
...deaths recalled what was valuable. At Ella's death the radio played the songs she graced, like Cole Porter's In the Still of the Night, and for a while a voice filled the air that hit every note on the note, sang words that meant something and infused heartbreak with...