Word: heartbreaking
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Part III: the restaurant; heartbreak; sudden acclaim...
...soldier on, comforted by the thought that his efforts and his determination and all his good behaviour will be crowned with success, recognition, apotheosis." Frederick: he "has always worn his misdemeanours on his sleeve. It has served to make him unassailable." Mimi: "It is in order to avoid heartbreak that Mimi wills herself into accepting everything at face value." Betty: "The one thing (she) has never been able to recapture is that sense of effortless superiority that she possessed at the age of 16. Where once she had only to display herself against the dreamy passivity of her sister Mimi...
...Michigan got on with two youthful sports who struggled to settle their bicycles around Skoko's machine. The athletes had the look of the superfit, the whites of their eyes blue white, calves plumped out like loving cups, dazzling teeth set in gums that probably will never know the heartbreak of gingivitis. Skoko had the look of a man grown weary with this age, and the knit of his brow suggested an approaching squall line...
BORN. To Amy Irving, 31, actress of stage (Heartbreak House), screen (Micki & Maude) and TV (The Far Pavilions), and Steven Spielberg, 37, celluloid superczar who has two new productions (The Goonies, Back to the Future) in this summer's crop of films: the unmarried couple's first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Max Samuel. Weight...
...Mode's monolithic melodies, abetted by clever consumer-culture sound effects (dropping ping-pong balls, snipping scissors) and super-resonant production, captures the finely-ground precision of the motionmusik, and added to the heartbreak of frustated adolescent romance, how could it miss...