Word: poignant
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...actor - a bad actor, to be sure, but a great bad actor, in that he let the camera's surgical close-ups reveal more than he wanted to display, and sometimes the exact opposite of what he was trying to say. The performance is infuriating and hilarious, or unbearably poignant, depending on your politics. Either way, it's stirring, depleting drama...
...pitch. On TV, his stabs at an intimate geniality showed the effort more than the effect, as if invisible wires were pulling his mouth into a smile. This was the Nixon so easily caricatured by political cartoonists and comedy impressionists; Langella gets all these elements but adds a certain poignant grandeur...
...brevity and compression of their story, the impressionistic sense that their lives, and not only the play that bears their names, constitute a ‘two-hours’ traffic,’ that has made this tragedy about untimely love so poignant, so ‘modern,’ and so timely.” It is this factor—now associated with our concept of “youth culture”—that Garber emphasizes, pointing to film, modern theater (specifically, “West Side Story”), music, cartoons...
...Sole of the Man TIME photographer Callie Shell defined the American ethos with her poignant photograph of the soles of Obama's shoes [Nov. 17]. Lots of us have pairs that look just like his, whether from searching for a job or simply walking to our place of employment because gas is unaffordable. The photograph also defined what Obama stands for: hard work, determination and never giving up. Melissa Clarke, Bear...
...Sole of the Man TIME photographer Callie Shell defined the American ethos with her poignant photograph of the soles of Obama's shoes [Nov. 17]. Lots of us have many pairs that look just like his, whether because of pounding the pavement looking for a job or simply walking to one's place of employment because gas is unaffordable. The photograph also defined what Obama stands for: hard work, determination and never giving up. Melissa Clarke, BEAR...