Word: poignant
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...last year with his verbose and neverending The Corrections, and recently another Jonathan—Jonathan Lethem—hit the literary big-time. Fortunately for us, Lethem’s efforts yielded a smarter and more complicated (albeit grandiose) novel, The Fortress of Solitude. And this comic but poignant novel was penned by an author both exuberant and thoughtful, something audience members at First Parish Church learned last Thursday evening...
Course evaluation of Gienapp’s classes—which were ranked among the best five at the College—were read, sharing sentiments that ranged from comical to poignant...
...life of Lyndon Johnson for me is a very poignant life,” Caro says, “most of all because he was never satisfied to stay where...
...Vietnam War because of the devastating effects it had on our men in uniform—the 58,000 deaths, the thousands of injuries, the conditions of fear and deprivation in which the soldiers lived and the horrible ramifications war had on their families. His most famous and poignant quote concerning his opposition to the Vietnam War was given in Senate testimony in 1971 in which he posed the question, “How can you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” It was not something to the effect...
Maybe because four of them (Penn, Robbins, Bacon and Fishburne) have directed films. Penn, in fact, has long thought of himself as a writer-director--he has made three impressive features (The Indian Runner, The Crossing Guard and The Pledge) as well as a poignant short film on 9/11--who finances his projects with acting gigs. "I was doing Super-8 movies in high school, and I loved that," he says. "But the idea that somebody was going to put 5 or 10 million dollars in a kid's pocket to direct a movie was ridiculous. 'Where are the adults...