Word: poignant
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Perhaps most memorable was 40-year old mother-to-be Mary Rutkowski. Five months pregnant, she said her recent experience discovering that her child is likely to be severely disabled made Zuckoff’s talk all the more poignant...
...hunger to get a piece of the famous and the psychology behind that desire are the substance of her intellectually agile but emotionally lacking follow-up, The Autograph Man (Random House; 347 pages). In it Alex-Li Tandem as a boy develops a fascination with celebrity signatures; in the poignant prologue, his father takes him to a wrestling match and drops dead of a brain tumor as Alex is jockeying to get a famous wrestler's autograph. Before dying, Alex's father gives him a signed pound note as a bet on the match, sealing the psycho-paternal importance...
Eleven directors of international repute each made a film intended to be precisely 11 min., 9 sec. and one frame long. Some were poignant (Sean Penn's, on a man living in the shadow of the Towers), some funny (Idrissa Ouedraogo's parable of African boys who spot an Osama bin Laden look-alike and try to cop the $25 million ransom). Several (from England, Bosnia, Egypt and Israel) pointed fingers at the U.S., saying, in effect, other countries have suffered atrocities for decades, so welcome to the club, America. No surprise that the film has opened in Europe...
...some of Harvard’s newest students, this year’s anniversary is especially poignant...
...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...