Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...repertoire of classic, bel canto and romantic bass roles, Ramey, 45, is without peer. He is a seductive Don Giovanni and a boisterous Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni, a poignant Don Quixote in Massenet's Don Quichotte and a terrifying barbarian chief in Verdi's Attila. This month he is in Italy for appearances at La Scala in his favorite role, the sexy Figaro in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro...
...French), escorted by her Prince. Yet even the royals could not dodge the toxic waft of melancholy. On the day of their visit, French TV announced the death of Rita Hayworth, whose signature film Gilda had played at Cannes' first postwar festival, in 1946. The news was a poignant reminder that the only immortality is on the screen, and that a cinema that lives in the past faces a bleak future...
...revised picture of the President was drawn by Robert McFarlane last week during four days of sometimes anguished public testimony before the House and Senate Select Committees investigating Iranscam. McFarlane, who served as Reagan's National Security Adviser from October 1983 to December 1985, is perhaps the most poignant figure in the scandal. Last February, depressed about his role in the political melodrama, he attempted suicide by swallowing an overdose of Valium...
...This poignant material is told obliquely and often with a fey nuttiness. The audience begins to understand that it has stepped outside the literal world when the most neurotically self-absorbed of the women confides to one of her companions that the waiter hates her, and a few moments later, he does indeed turn and say, deadpan, "I hate you." At South Coast Repertory's handsome stage, the show had a visual sleekness that it somewhat lacks in the more rudimentary facilities of the New York City producer, Playwrights Horizons. But the elegance of the storytelling survives and reflects more...
...thriller and a poignant satire explore the advantages and liabilities of being invisible. -- Mary McCarthy remembers How I Grew...