Word: poignant
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...people who came to see Tuesday's event. "And it's all because of you." Street's easy demeanor has brought her legions of fans and some $1.5 million in endorsements, according to Forbes Magazine. She seems sublimely comfortable with TV cameras and photographers' long-range lenses recording every poignant moment with her family and friends, moments most people would like to keep private...
Jimmy Shea's was one of the feel-good stories in the run-up to the Games and is now one of the most poignant. His grandfather Jack was the oldest living U.S. Olympic gold medalist at 91, having won twice in speed skating at the 1932 Games. Jimmy's father Jim Sr. was a Nordic combined athlete--that's ski jumping followed by cross-country skiing--in the 1964 Olympics. Both men were to be in the stadium when Jimmy marched in, but Jack was killed in a car accident two weeks ago. Jimmy will slide with his grandfather...
...been unwell. When last seen in public, just before Christmas, she was confined to a wheelchair, her face disfiguringly puffy - apparently from medication - and shrouded by enormous dark glasses. With both her left side and her eyesight seriously affected by strokes, Margaret was a frail, spectral figure - in poignant contrast to the vibrant young woman who once rewrote the book on proper royal behavior...
Zinn is very much about the power of voices and the need for compassion, and one of his most poignant articles of late was a piece for The Nation. The New York Times had recently finished its “Portraits of Grief” series, devoted to portrayals of the personalities who died in the Sept. 11 attacks and might have otherwise been forgotten. Pain was converted from statistics to individual people who we could connect with and believe in and reach out to; yet the media’s coverage of civilian deaths in Afghanistan was washed...
...makeovers on guests and audience members. In one touching moment, a voluptuous woman tearfully revealed her difficulty fitting a bra to her 38 DD chest: “They aren’t breasts, they’re monsters!” Among Ananda’s other poignant topics: “Pregnant and Partying,” “Fixing Up Your Ex” and “Incredible Surprises...