Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laced with music and dance, yet it is not a musical. It is housed in a Broadway playhouse, but it is not a play. It is more nearly a spectacle-the kind that people have in mind when they talk of "making a spectacle of oneself," funny yet frightening, poignant, pitiable and a little tawdry. It follows no plot, but simply coils, sometimes slackly, sometimes snugly, around an event: a dance marathon. But it clings to an abiding vision that life is a grueling test, rather like 3,000 hours on a dance marathon floor, and that the prizes...
...lend authenticity to interior scenes. Trouble is, the author's durable patchwork of memories cannot be packed and crated, nor can intimations of every man's mortality be reduced to a broad hint that something is going to happen to Dad. Director Alex Segal has rendered a poignant minor classic in prosaic style, as if he were a nosy neighbor letting everybody in on the awful thing that happened to those nice folks down the street...
...MUSIC ROOM. India's Satyajit Ray tells a poignant and profoundly Asiatic tale about a man who ruined his life to save his face...
Responded the Emperor: "I recall with most poignant emotion the moral support that Ethiopia received from the U.S. in the dark hour when my country was ravished by fascism 27 years...
...MUSIC ROOM. India's Satyajit Ray tells a poignant and profoundly Asiatic tale about a man who ruined his life to save his face...