Word: poignant
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...White House. A year ago, Bush spent 14 hours visiting all three sites of destruction and death--downtown Manhattan, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pa. He ended that pilgrimage with a speech at Ellis Island--the Statue of Liberty and the wounded New York City skyline providing a backdrop both poignant and uplifting. This year, by contrast, a White House aide said before Sept. 11, "the message is low key." It could hardly have been lower...
...wrestled his demons to a draw and learned to walk the line--to think of death not as a psycho killer but as a kindly escort. In September When It Comes, a duet recorded this year with his daughter Rosanne, Cash speak-sings this poignant prophecy: "They will fly me, like an angel,/To a place where I can rest/When this begins, I'll let you know,/September when it comes...
...Namesake is a novel about distance, geographic and emotional, but it's also about time. The decades zoom by in a parade of poignant tableaux, and the Gangulis' son Gogol grows up to become a successful architect, but he is never quite comfortable in his own skin. He feels neither Indian nor American, without even a true home to feel homesick for. But a series of tableaux, however poignant, does not a novel make. In her Pulitzer-prizewinning story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, Lahiri mastered the art of ending on a freeze-frame, leaving her characters suspended in a moment...
...young James Spader) and mining a comic's deadpan depths. Watch Murray's eyes in the climactic scene in the hotel lobby: while hardly moving, they express the collapsing of all hopes, the return to a sleepwalking status quo. You won't find a subtler, funnier or more poignant performance this year than this quietly astonishing turn...
...scarred cedar is a poignant example of the damage that climbers can do to the fragile ecosystems where they practice their sport. Camp 4 has long been home base for climbers in Yosemite, the birthplace of U.S. rock climbing. Here, where every cliff face presents an Ansel Adams moment, climbers should know better. But as the number of climbers grows--from 800,000 in 2000 to 1 million today, according to industry sources--so too does the impact they are having on the wilderness. Public-land managers, already short of funds, are struggling to keep up. Modern climbing techniques make...