Word: heartbreaking
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...Onassis, for her lover--or had him, until his eye veered to President Kennedy's widow. At times, McNally arranges for the classroom to dissolve away and for Callas to address us in private monologue, revealing a tremulous woman whose fame provides some compensation for, but little insulation from, heartbreak...
...open up the play to outside influences, he simplifies and limits the text. All the hammering percussion cannot drum up the menace his actors fail to instill. All the bewitching lighting effects cannot etherealize an Ariel (Aunjanue Ellis) who delivers a version of "Full fathom five..." devoid of gorgeous heartbreak...
Harvard (1-6-0, 0-4-0 Ivy) enters the game at Brown Stadium having lost five games in a row and desperately seeking a victory to ease the pain of consistent heartbreak. Four of the Crimson's six losses this season have been by less than one touchdown, and all have been hotly contested battles where the ball just hasn't bounced Harvard...
...similarities doubled when Little, Brown announced that it had bought the first literary work by the thinking teenager's sex symbol (Douglas is the proud author of three novels). Hawke's book, The Hottest State, is described by its editor, Jordan Pavlin, as being "about first love and heartbreak, about being turned inside out by the intensity of your own emotion." Little, Brown paid about $300,000 for the novel, roughly 60 times the advance for most first novels about first love and heartbreak. Hawke's will hit bookstores in fall 1996, but nobody is saying whether the price reflects...
...Susan Smith was not programmed to be "good." Everything in her own sorry history taught her to put the pull of sexual, romantic love above the needs of little children. When she was six, her father killed himself in response to the heartbreak of divorce. Susan had been his favorite, but this didn't make her important enough for him to stick around...