Word: poignant
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...Cards and Jubilee) have the feel of requiems. The title song chides the middle class for its double-entry morality: "We pencil in, we cancel out, we crave the corner suite,/ We kiss your ass, we make you hold, we doctor the receipt." John Doe No. 24 is the poignant testament of a blind, deaf boy found on an Illinois street in 1945. And he's not the only lonely one. In Chapin Country, we're all displaced persons...
...elemental theme is his experience there as a shy and questioning infantryman. O'Brien's Going After Cacciato (winner of the National Book Award in 1979) is perhaps the finest imaginative reconstruction of that war; and his story Speaking of Courage (from The Things They Carried, 1990), the most poignant evocation of a Vietnam veteran's displacement upon returning home. In his latest novel, In the Lake of the Woods (Houghton Mifflin; 306 pages; $21.95), O'Brien turns once again to the time-released traumas of Vietnam, writing about them bravely and often brilliantly...
...waiting, or still failing without access to the reasons has become a salient point to legions of more or less listless young people. Antonioni offers no answers, and his attempts at tenderness are few and far between, but "L'Avventura" frames a vocabulary of a kind of despair, both poignant and banal, that can speak for a part of today's unnamed generation...
...Pleasant Hill, USA" is the other documentary in the series. It is the poignant story of a bank robbery and shooting spree committed by a high school student in a small town in Ohio. This film deserves special attention for its striking and beautiful camera stills which capture the simplicity of the town and demonstrate the potential of this director, Joshua Wintringham...
...practice among politicians. An even more common practice is the neglect of one's family. Ambitious politicians almost by definition find more fulfillment in coffee klatches and subcommittee meetings than at Little League and the PTA. Quayle's quite valid critique of Murphy Brown and single parenthood is especially poignant coming from a man who spent so much time away from home during his two House terms that his wife confessed she often felt like a "single parent...