Word: poignant
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...ruin. My mission is to correct people when they perceive things wrongly," snarls Lydon, hoping the film finally clarifies the group's twin-barreled assault on the music industry and Britain's class system. (Ironically, at test screenings, some teens thought it was fiction.) In Filth's strangest, most poignant moment, he breaks down crying while discussing Sid Vicious, the bandmate he lost to heroin. "I care about anyone dying a stupid death," he says, though he fought to snip his sobbing from the final cut. Says director Julien Temple: "I argued that this moment that seemed like pathetic weakness...
...convulsive incident. The Color of Paradise could be called the first Iranian action movie if it weren't so much more than that: artfully simple, beautifully observant of man and nature. This miniature epic is a film that, like its young hero, will enrich those who peer into its poignant heart...
Melchiono remembers one particularly poignant visit...
Among all the images of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez that we've seen since he was rescued from the Atlantic last Thanksgiving, the most poignant is his handwriting. Lawyers for Elian's Miami relatives--who refuse to send him back to his father in communist Cuba--had the boy himself sign court papers seeking U.S. asylum. Elian, they said, is capable of deciding where he wants to live. But the first-grader's crude letters betray his tender mind, like the Power Rangers in his toy box. Last week Miami Federal Judge K. Michael Moore dismissed the relatives' case...
...seems to be the fate of certain best sellers--the ones that propose to reveal the secrets of life in seven easy steps--to live on not for the lessons they impart but as poignant reminders of a cultural period. How to Win Friends & Influence People evokes a time of polyester salesmen tooling through leafy suburbs in aqua Buicks, hawking insurance policies and vacuum cleaners. Jonathan Livingston Seagull takes us back to an era when vegetarians in Earth Shoes tramped the countryside stalking the wild asparagus. Easy to read and easier to forget, they are books we look back...