Word: poignant
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...Jones, of course, milks it for all it's worth, the whole thing made doubly poignant by his own history with Jack Daniels and friends. His voice has, even for him, an unusual sense of hopelessness, aided, as usual, by exquisite phrasing and emphasis. The spare backing, orchestrated by his discoverer and first producer, Pappy Daily, opens with a lone, lonely fiddle, but is otherwise somewhat jaunty, which serves to highlight the plight of the couple involved...
...live sound (recorded last year) and the piano improvisations before almost every song bring energy and freshness to old favorites such as "Mandolin Rain" and the poignant "Road Not Taken." And the combination of piano artistry and heavy lyrics on "The Way It Is" that won Hornsby a Grammy in 1986 still delivers a powerful punch. New additions to the Hornsby repertoire include "The End of the Innocence," which, although co-penned by Hornsby, was originally recorded by Don Henley. Overall, Here Come the Noise Makers presents both a retrospective of Hornsby's 15-year musical career and puts...
...wasn't self-conscious in that respect, but at the same time it allowed me to get close with him and get to know him. I don't think I would have spent as much time with my grandfather had I not had these reasons." In a particularly poignant sequence, her grandfather struggles to brush his hair, put on his shoes and button his pants. Agnes helps the viewer and herself to explore the pains of everyday life that age forces us to endure: "He's really great to hang out with. I think my family thinks that...
...authors Whitney Roban and Michael Conn pointed out in a report for the Girls Scouts of America called Girls Speak Out, is that the stages of childhood development--cognitive, physical and emotional--have got out of synch. Roban and Conn call this "developmental compression" and pepper their study with poignant quotes from girls struggling to cope with pressures they are ill equipped to handle. "Boys," complains a fourth-grader in their report, "are gaga over girls with breasts...
...Nader victory now will not necessarily help the Green Party in four years. If this is all about the 5 percent, the experience of the Reform Party should also provide a poignant example. This year, Pat Buchanan had the opportunity to blow $26 million dollars that equally fervent Ross Perot supporters won for the Reform Party in 1996 by garnering 7 percent of the vote. Reporting at the Reform Party convention(s) in Long Beach, found old-time Reformers flabbergasted by the way Buchanan could bring his hard-line Republican supporters into their party in search of money. Some...