Word: mournfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what some French sociologists call La Generation MacDo, saw a commercial for "McCopters," she dragged her mother to the McDonald's across from the Austerlitz train station. Until 1989, the spot was occupied by a vast cafe, the Arc-en-Ciel. But Marie Biondi, Shannon's mother, does not mourn the disappearance of the bistro. "We feel safe here," she says. "We avoid the neighborhood drunk, and the toilets are clean." Nearby, medical student Christophe Icard, 21, converses with a companion over chocolate ice cream. Cafes are "expensive and old-fashioned," he says...
...attending to this incident of the many in these "yet to be united states," a world where reports of racial unrest come and go in bewildering profusion, numbing the senses, hobbling the synapses that strive to process such tales of anger and pain. Please not another death to mourn, not another riot to lament. Hearing it in passing would have...
...playing pro baseball. One patient returned to a favorite fishing hole -- and found an apartment building. Women who have missed the chance to have children stare sadly at the enlarged girth of counselor Kathy Sinkiewicz, pregnant with her second child. Patients eventually have to confront and if necessary "mourn" these losses, says Sinkiewicz. Dancing at a belated high school prom was part of that process, but only the first of many intricate steps back toward life...
...simply a skillful and ruthless practitioner of the techniques of his backstabbing times. While invested by McKellen with all the understandable self-pity of a man whose mother reviled him from birth for his physical deformities and who contemplates death in the certainty that no living creature will mourn him, this Richard is no less reprehensible for being comprehensible...
...everyone agreed, "sexy," but no one ever satisfactorily defined the nature of her appeal, which eventually settled into a dislocating combination of threat and good nature, the elusive and the earthy. When she died alone at 90 last week in her tiny Paris apartment, the world did not exactly mourn her, most of it being too young to have powerful emotional connections with her. But it did pause to ponder, one last time, the enigma that was Marlene Dietrich...