Word: lorn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although some students manage to break through the TF-student barrier, others don't tamper with it. And while love-lorn students may be frustrated by their unfulfilled longings, they can at least take comfort in the fact that their crush helps to keep them motivated. "Theta", a sophomore, says that she had a very strong crush on her match CA last year. As a result, she ended up going to every section, asking a lot of questions and turning in all her homeworks. "It got a bit ridiculous," she says. "I knew nothing could happen, so at one point...
Square vendors of such cupid day constants ascards, candy and stuffed animals say they aredoing a brisk business among love-sick--orlove-lorn--Cantabrigians, many of whom arestudents...
Regis Wargnier's Indochine takes a gentler, more comprehensive approach. It suggests that the French, at the twilight of their long rule in Indochina, saw themselves not as the region's colonizers -- ravaging its natural and human resources -- but as its foster parents, nourishing a lovely, lorn child with the civilizing bounty of French culture. That, anyway, is Indochine's explicit metaphor. Eliane (Catherine Deneuve), the owner of a rubber plantation, raises Camille (Linh Dan Pham), an orphan princess of Annam, as her own daughter. What could separate these two beautiful women? Only the nationalist uprising of the 1940s...
...wife-lorn hero goes googly, the world, of course, reciprocates. His beloved daughter reacts to her parents' split by dropping out of college to live with a raving-mad private-property fanatic older than her father. Frank's secretary quits. The price of cattle drops, just when he has a thousand head to sell. The hero, who is a decent enough fellow, just insensitive to women's needs, egomaniacal, undeserving and stuffed with the usual macho baloney, watches all this wonderingly but without resentment...
...bizarre vision turns into a communal sing-along with the departed: "We're all gonna be here forever." Looking across the border separating life from the afterlife, Lovett sees they are part of one seamless journey. The dead will teach the living how to grieve for lost friends and lorn love...