Word: poignant
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...again/Good to see your face again/It's good to see you"-but when Young gets unfocused it sounds sappy ("Love don't care if you're wrong or right/Love don't know if you're black or white," from "Horseshoe Man"). Young is at his most poignant when he composes musical portraits, such as the railroad town of "Red Sun" and the old dad in "Daddy Went Walkin...
...know you're all losers as well. You just disguise it a lot better than we do in England. In England, it's like, "Bah, I'm nobody." But Woody touched me because it was the comedy I liked. It's not trying so hard, it was just endearing, poignant, beautiful...
With the publication of her sixth book, Life So Far: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster; 399 pages), Friedan gives us the fullest, most candid account of her experience in the vortex of that revolution, and the toll it took on her personal life. She writes with poignant honesty of her loneliness growing up Jewish in Peoria, Ill. ("Mostly, my mother made me feel bad about myself"); her fascination with communism after graduating from Smith College; and the strain of her 22-year marriage to Carl Friedan. After the success of The Feminine Mystique, her husband, who had originally encouraged her research...
...curious thing about swing, though, is that it was popular and poignant simultaneously, at once low and high, democratic and aristocratic. At its best, swing wedded a danceable rhythm to challenging harmonics and inspired improvisation, producing a single musical form capable of pleasing aesthetes along with everyone else. Swing was the ancients' mixed regime--not in speech, but in music...
...Virgin Suicides, although beset by structural and character issues, is an ambitious and mildly successful film. There are poignant and touching moments in this movie that speak of the awkwardness of adolescence and teenage sexuality. It is re-assuring to see a film that takes a serious look at youth and suburban culture, rather than the usual teeny romantic comedies that flood the cinema. The soundtrack, also uncharacteristically not the usual litany of teen bands, is completely produced by the French band Air, and adds a moody and nuanced touch to the film. Although falling short of its potential...