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...four years I have written for this newspaper, among other publications, and for four years I have endured a wealth of responses (tear-jerker e-mails to 8 a.m. phone threats) from the Harvard community. Street corners and doorways now come alive as I pass, inhabited by my memory's visions of heated debates, sparring and the occasional denial...
Besides, if his Koln Concert is any evidence, Jarrett finds meaning and authenticity only in a surfeit of emotion and moodiness. The album, a recording of one of his improvisational concerts, is a real soul-twister, one part tear-jerker, one part elevator fodder, and one part art. Jarrett oozes presence on the album, as he grunts along with the music over and over and over again...
Nine years after Cosette and company immigrated to the United States, it is safe to say that Alain Boubil's epic adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1500-page toms has a death grip on popular culture. It is the great international cry-fest, the teariest tear-jerker of them all. Its every laugh is tempered with reminders of the pre-revolutionary tribulations of France's lowest classes; and the jubilation of Valjean's victory over his past is mitigated by the despair of the students' doomed rebellion...
Although the film challenges the definition of the typical crime-and-love movie, the last scene is as much of tear-jerker as the end of any "classic." In this scene, Michel staggers down the street, chased by the police (who have just shot him in the back) and Patricia, who just turned him in because she wasn't sure she loved him. He falls, with just enough life in him to speak his last words to Patricia. But, as we might expect from such a film, these last words are not those of a noble hero...
Sometimes, it seems as if the constant assembly line of formulaic, big-budget, "blockbuster" films that Hollywood churns out with monotonous regularity has trained its audience only too well. Certain keywords, such as "family comedy," '"heart-stop-ping suspense," and tear jerker romance" will produce an almost Pavlovian response in the prospective audience. Probably any experienced moviegoer can summarize the entire plot of a two hour film after seeing only the 45 second preview. Such are the movies of the Nineties...