Word: poignant
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...rapped on Get Rich or Die Trying's best track, Patiently Waiting, in which 50 talks about how long he's been itching to show off his talent. 50 has some talent to show, and when he's rapping about his desire to be somebody he can even be poignant. But he's also capable of disturbingly thuggish behavior. The track Wanksta is the latest salvo in an increasingly absurd feud 50 is conducting with rapper Ja Rule. Two years ago, Ja Rule was robbed of several thousand dollars' worth of jewelry; later he saw 50 hanging out with...
...love with the African American gardener. As her reputation and family life shatter, Moore’s prim mother strains admirably and pathetically to keep herself going. Her character’s pristine married life behind her, the concluding expression on Moore’s face is as poignant and devastating as that of Meryl Streep’s suicide victim in Sophie’s Choice. Far from Heaven screens...
...entire streets in Basra without a single depiction of the dictator. Basra's most notable statues are not of Saddam but of such historic figures as the poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and the philologist Al-Khalili bin Ahmed al-Farahidi and of "martyrs" from earlier battles. The most poignant of Iraq's countless memorials is on the corniche along the Shatt al Arab: 100 bronze statues of war heroes, each pointing an accusing index finger in the direction of the old enemy, Iran...
...Hyundai Asan, a subsidiary of the giant Hyundai conglomerate, were taken in buses across the border on a road built to improve access to a tourism development in the North. The caravan over the first new route across the DMZ since the end of the Korean War was a poignant, intensely emotional moment for Koreans. Hyundai Asan plans to pour $250 million?for starters?into a planned industrial park and tourist project in Kaesong, a city barely an hour from Seoul. Says Kaesong city councilor Jong Yong Chol: "The U.S. maneuvers against our country are getting more and more severe...
Many columns that critique Harvard’s approaches to teaching and learning begin or end with the phrase, “world’s greatest university….” Rather than an affirmation of fact, I think the use of the phrase is a poignant expression of the sense of disparity between what is and what can be—why it is that the caliber of our educations falters behind the caliber of our libraries, our professors and the caliber of our own minds...