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...United States recovers from the attacks, this unnamed and unassuming firefighter is a poignant reminder of what it means to be American. Whether we follow his courageous lead by giving blood, sending food or providing comfort to our friends and loved ones, we are all helping to speed the recovery process. Consequently, we can say with certainty that the deaths of these emergency personnel were needless, but they were not in vain...
...FORT BRAGG: PW gives a starred, boxed review, its highest accolade, to "Ava's Man" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg. "Following up his bestselling memoir, 'All Over But the Shoutin', Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class Southern life by looking deep into his own family history. This new volume recounts the life of his maternal grandfather, Charlie Bundrum, who died in 1958, one year before Rick was born...His investigations in the Appalachian foothills along the Georgia-Alabama border turn up a beloved, larger-than-life rambler who inspired backwoods legend among contemporaries, undying...
America, the proudest nation in the 1950s, later slouched into self-doubt, and Lemmon boldly charted that course onscreen. He demonstrated, for an audience not always eager to hear it, the poignant truth of Joe E. Brown's flippant observation to Lemmon at the end of Some Like It Hot: "Nobody's perfect." Jack Lemmon wasn't either, but he had one great American trait--bravery--that served him well as deft comedian and slapstick tragedian, cunning artist and surpassing entertainer...
...moving that she could sing the phone book and probably give it meaning. But she comes up with extraordinary words for that voice to sing--deceptively simple words like back steps or hairdo. How do you use the word hairdo in a song and make it so poignant that it almost breaks your heart...
Hosting the Ivies was a particularly poignant way for the Crimson to salute its graduating seniors-Mattson, Hart and Angela Lutich...