Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SPOILS OF WAR In Michael Weller's poignant memoir, off-Broadway and briefly on it, Kate Nelligan gave the performance of the year as an Auntie Mame mom, mingling furtive boozing and strutting glamour, dignity and desperation...
Many painful and poignant images have emerged from earthquake-devastated Armenia, but one scene last week seemed to capture perfectly the changes that the tragedy has wrought in the Soviet Union. There, at the same table in the Armenian capital of Yerevan, sat Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, representing a state that officially avows atheism, and Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa, founder of the Roman Catholic Society of the Missionaries of Charity and one among 2,000 foreign volunteers taking part in the unprecedented relief effort. The tiny, veiled nun nodded approvingly as the Communist official showed...
...SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE. Lily Tomlin's solo sketches, a 1985 Broadway hit, are still poignant and, if anything, funnier. In Detroit through Dec. 24, and on tour through March...
SPOILS OF WAR. Kate Nelligan glows as a feckless but fascinating mother in Michael Weller's poignant story of estranged parents and a teen son who schemes to reunite them. Now on Broadway...
...exhibition is fascinating, but a blockbuster it is not. The pictorial tradition it examines -- broadly, the image of landscape as Arcadia, from Giorgione down the centuries to Bonnard, Matisse and their later modern heirs -- contains some of the most poignant, influential and exquisitely developed paintings in the history of art. Few of them, in these days of terminally fragile objects and impossible insurance costs, could or should be allowed to travel. An exhibition that dealt with this theme at full stretch would have to include Giorgione's Tempest and his (or Titian's) Concert Champetre, Botticelli's Primavera, Titian...