Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HEIDI CHRONICLES. Joan Allen's poignant playing turns writer Wendy Wasserstein's feminist cliches into a touching glimpse of baby boomers grown older if not wiser...
...inviting vulnerability, an approach to romance simultaneously fragile and fearless, a wit at once acerbic and diffident. While Wasserstein (Isn't It Romantic?) has written mostly whiny and self-congratulatory cliches for the surrounding characters, she has given Heidi -- or Allen has found -- a complex, self-aware and poignant life...
...uncanny prescience, the movies of 1939 seemed to anticipate what was to come. People may have gone crazy over there, they seemed to say, but here, here in America, there is still safety. Even that sunny musical, Babes in Arms, ends in a curious and, in retrospect, quite poignant, plea for peace. "We send our greetings to friendly nations," sings the chorus, led by Garland and Rooney. "We may be Yanks, but we're your relations. Drop your sabers, we're all going to be good neighbors here in God's country...
SHIRLEY VALENTINE. Pauline Collins (Upstairs, Downstairs) brings to Broadway her funny and poignant performance as a discontented housewife breaking free...
SHIRLEY VALENTINE. Pauline Collins (Upstairs, Downstairs) brings to Broadway the funny and poignant performance that won her London's version of the Tony as a discontented housewife breaking free...