Word: poignant
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...cockamamie romantic truisms. For young viewers who spent their entire lives in the aids era, they're a safe fantasy of commitment-free dating, all about getting lucky, drunk and stupid with little at stake. (Which makes the herpes-medicine ads during the shows that much more unintentionally poignant.) Couples hook up--mostly, it seems, as a performance for the audience--trash-talk each other and move on. "I don't understand some of the women," says Barberie. "There was one who got in a hot tub with this guy--big fake boobs, takes her top off, has him feel...
...dance (one of Astaire's most brilliant). I'm thinking of the coda: a startlingly suspenseful 12 seconds of silence as Ginger considers the ecstasy she has just shared with a man she believes to be married. It's post-coital remorse and wistfulness at its most poignant...
...Bergman is at the center of the Rossellini segment, as Vitti is of the Antonioni. The emotional peak of the whole opus is an 18-min. pr?cis of "Senso," whose ravishments are incarnated by Valli's gift for reckless passion glowing through a steely sheath. The most poignant moment in "Voyage" is the last scene from "La Dolce Vita": a girl (14-year-old Valeria Ciangottini), her face innocent and knowing, beckons to Mastroianni, and in his wry stupor he waves her entreaties away...
Bethune's trip to Seattle to pick up the Boeing 767 is a poignant sign of the times: it is one of the last jumbo-jet deliveries Continental will take until the second half of 2003, with the remainder put on hold until demand picks up. Bethune does a few touch-and-go landings at Moses Lake to test the new jet, No. 271 in the nation's youngest fleet (average age: 5.2 years), but he gives up the pilot's seat after an air-traffic controller, not knowing who's at the controls, suggests the 767 fly a tighter...
...against a house with infinite resources... DiMaggio activated the greatest and most unattainable dream of all humanity, the hope and chimera of all sages and shamans: he cheated death, at least for a while." This was Gould at his best--profundity with a light touch, made all the more poignant because in 1982 he survived a nasty cancer. Steve Gould cheated death, at least for a while, and while he did, he enriched our appreciation of life in all its manifestations. --By Steven Pinker