Word: poignant
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Syriana is one of three new films, all meaty and intelligent, told in part from the view of a suicide bomber. Hany Abu-Assad's gnarly, poignant Paradise Now is set on the West Bank; Joseph Castelo's knockout nail biter The War Within takes place in New York City. But both have the monomania of an Islamic jihadist and the momentum of a Hitchcock movie about a bomb on a bus. Their simple narratives are the fuse that inexorably leads to the big blast. Syriana also ends with an explosion, but its journey there is through a labyrinth...
...over the little village of Hernandez bathed in an unearthly light.But these easily-recognizable prints can be found in art galleries around Boston. What is unique at the MFA is context and variety: photographs of Manhattan that Adams took when he visited the photographer Alfred Stieglitz in New York; poignant and funny pictures of run-down Western towns; a crazy photograph of sodium calcite crystals in Adams’s developing tray; a striking portrait of Georgia O’Keefe and Orville Cox; and, among Adams’ last pictures, an aerial view of a Los Angeles freeway interchange...
...various stages of development with a smile plastered to my face, convinced of her moral superiority to the other teen pop-tarts emblazoned in my heart. That’s why her new video, “Beat of My Heart,” is especially poignant. Hilary was once so normal, so vaguely blonde and portly. Now she looks like she is in the later stages of a voracious coke addiction and is dating a 26-year-old who wears eyeliner. It is, omg, so sad.My disappointment is particularly acute because “Beat of My Heart?...
...makes you feel worthless," he says. "It's as though you're a failure as a person and not just as a cricketer." Waugh's shyness is a revelation: a passage in which he botches a speech in front of his family is one of the book's most poignant. Another surprise is the helplessness he felt in his early days as a Test batsman, facing a quartet of West Indian fast bowlers every bit as ruthless as Waugh would become...
...amid the sea of gesturing arms and participating in the dance truly evoked a comforting sense of shared experience. The dancers onstage repeated this dance of gestures towards the conclusion of the piece. The audience’s personal stake in that dance made seeing its final recapitulation especially poignant, and deepened the sense that evening managed to tackle large concepts and devastating emotions through brilliant artistry. —Staff writer Marin J.D. Orlosky can be reached at orlosky@fas.harvard.edu...