Word: poignant
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...subjects of her six chapters are very specific: a restaurant in a bohemian district of West Berlin, an East German poet who spied on his friends for the secret police, the struggle over what kind of Holocaust memorial--if any--should be built in Berlin. Perhaps the most poignant and telling of the stories is the one about a young man whom Kramer calls Peter Schmidt, a drifting East German who tried to escape when the Wall still existed, was caught and imprisoned but was eventually sold to the West (the East often traded political prisoners for hard currency...
Perhaps a touching, Billy Crystalesque, account of my first trip to Yankee Stadium. Maybe a poignant memory of my family gathering around the radio to hear John Sterling's melodious, "Yankees win, the-uh-uh Yankees win!" But I will spare the audience my joyful tears, at least until they...
...party drove back to Greyfield to dine on shrimp, artichokes, grilled swordfish and lemon-raspberry ice cream. More details were not forthcoming since the staff had all signed confidentiality agreements. But it is known that Senator Kennedy gave a toast more poignant than the one the previous evening. He invoked the names of John's parents and said how proud they would have been; once again many of those present were brought to tears...
...theater is filled these days with graphic homosexual stories. Gay sex interweaves a certain risque prestige with the drama of its poignant risk. But public male heterosexuality, like water seeking its own level, has settled down in the tabloid bottomlands, where it does its best to provide low entertainment. So we have hilariously unwholesome scenes in which, for example, the chief political strategist to the President of the U.S. is described as barking around an expensive Washington hotel suite on all fours. Besides that arresting scene, the story offers continuing suspense: Will Rover's wife forgive him this untidiness...
...recite on this holiest of days do not speak of housing lotteries or exam groups. "On Yom Kippur judgement is sealed: who shall live and who shall die: who shall rest and who shall wander; who shall be comforted and who shall be tormented," reads one of the more poignant prayers of the day. We are reminded that there are important and genuinely frightening life issues that we sometimes lose sight of in our daily routine...