Word: mourning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fall, and a young man's thoughts turn to ... the Division Series? Baseball begins its month-long playoff tomorrow, and while we may mourn the passing of the days when the first-place team from the American met the champion of the National in one simple Fall Classic, we also know that today baseball's marketing-gone-amok will first make us sit through weeks of lesser contests. Case in point: Atlanta, the team with the Big Leagues' best record, takes on a Houston Astros club that barely won more than it lost. Where's Judge Landis when you need...
Journalists are paid to have opinions, and so they have tried in the past week to make this demonstration articulate. They have tried to say the crowds that have gathered in London to mourn the Queen of Hearts arrived there, like the followers of Wat Tyler in the Peasants' Revolt, with a list of articulate demands...
When I think about how different life will be without them, I think how their parents must be devastated, how former teachers and former lovers will mourn, how current class discussions and party atmospheres will change...
Death is not a happy ending in Hollywood movies. A beloved man is dead, and we mourn, for our loss at least as much as his. But this is a cause for celebration. Today a new generation, raised on facetiousness and arid sensation, has the thrilling duty to discover Stewart's crucial contribution to the movies that made the movies great. The young may also take instruction from his exemplary life story. How simple it was--we would like to say how simply American. Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country and died for love...
...voice for the ocean. Some will smile, recalling his great charm, lilting French accent, red cap, irrepressible sense of wonder, passion for discovery and talent as a consummate communicator. He touched our minds and hearts, luring us onward--and downward. While celebrating a life well lived, I personally mourn the loss of a trusted friend. Surely the sea does...