Word: poignant
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...condemns the new decade: "half my patients/yuppie pagans/modeled on this/Ronald Reagan" Yet he and Trina seem to be living quite the yuppified Laura-Ashley-decorated lifestyle. In this act, real love develops between Whizzer and Martin, as does some of the loveliest music of the show. In these quiet, poignant moments, the cast's talent for handling emotion with delicacy and without melodrama and their collective vocal strength, is most clearly showcased...
...goes Gavin Bryars' extraordinary elegy The Sinking of the Titanic, released this month on Point Music. Mankind's greatest and most poignant symbol of technological hubris has inspired the British composer, 52, to one of his finest and most moving works, every bit the equal of 1993's haunting Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet and even surpassing it in the complex and sure-handed way Bryars uses his materials...
...From Wham! to Pearl Jam: Aesthetic Shifts in Late 20th Century Popular Culture." The 1990s were a Golden Age in the history of American tastes, he argues, a decade of pared-down chic superior to the one that preceded it. To bolster his thesis, he cites the rise of poignant alternative music, the popularity of earth-toned packaging and the disappearance of clothing with shoulder pads. His students are unconvinced. What was so great, they shout, about an era that gave us Robert James Waller and the Ricki Lake show? Ah, the professor replies sagely, but during...
...doubtless hear more from her on that subject. Says senior editor Howard Chua-Eoan, who has worked with her both at PEOPLE and TIME: ``She has a particular talent for delineating character, for sifting through reporting for the detail that is just right. She would always display the most poignant evidence of a subject's heart--or lack...
Quayle himself is certainly less relieved. ``To a large extent the Quayle message will be the Republican message,'' says Republican strategist William Kristol, Quayle's former chief of staff. ``That's sort of a poignant irony.'' Yet last Tuesday, even as he discussed his campaign themes, Quayle sounded wary of the personal sacrifices. Some friends believe his hospitalizations may have tempered his ambitions. ``It's so nice and quiet here,'' he said, as snow dusted the trees along the country lane where the Quayles live. ``On Saturday mornings I like to come down early and read...