Word: lamentations
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...point here is not to criticize those who leave college early for proball. Their talent is their's alone and no one can be blamed for jumping at the opportunity to earn millions playing professionally. Nevertheless, fans can only lament the talent drain and lack of continuity that the early departures create...
...times have changed. While theatergoers on this side of the Atlantic still lament that Broadway is overdependent on British imports, London seems to be infatuated with Americans. Transplants from Broadway like Grease, Smokey Joe's Cafe and Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor are side by side on the West End with Andrew Lloyd Webber extravaganzas. The Royal National Theatre has just revived Richard Eyre's landmark 1982 production of Guys and Dolls, whose success inspired a string of British revivals of classic American musicals. Even so unfashionable, and quintessentially American, a pop figure as Al Jolson...
...musical interludes through the evening included a mini-opera titled "Lament Del Cockroach" in which Nobel laureates starred as insects and tried to woo two mezzo sopranos acting as cockroaches...
...giant in biology, no question," said Andrew H. Knoll, chair of the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Department. "All of us in the department will lament the fact that he will not be teaching any more...
...Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan from June 1970 to September 1972 and did some of my training in Kabul. It was by no stretch of the imagination a beautiful city. In midsummer it was hot, dusty and dirty, and in winter cold, mud-covered and miserable. But I lament the destruction of this backwater capital. For beneath the grime and mud were sharp colors and tantalizing smells. I lament the loss of the shopkeepers who manned the stalls of the bazaars and the women shrouded in mystery who frequented them. I mourn for the children, now maimed or dead...