Word: regretable
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...true-we are finished but it is not my wish. It was for Liza to say so," said Peter Sellers, 47, admitting that his sudden romance with Liza Minnelli, 27, had fizzled. He was staying behind in London while she prepared to solo in the U.S. "How can you regret anything that was so happy?" Liza gushed, already nostalgic over her month-long affair...
Still, there was some reason to regret Dunlop's departure. His style marked him off from the rest of the grey bureaucrats who have come to predominate around here, even though they are at least commited as he was to impending progress. Dunlop at least had a sense of commitment to match his engaging personality: his tactics, although expedient in an immediate sense, at least channeled events toward goals he valued sincerely and highly. Most of us accurately viewed him as an adversary, but he was at least the kind we could simultaneously chuckle at and respect even...
...corporations as in Government, several officials note, executive assistants sometimes give orders in the chief's name without his knowledge -but if an assistant gets his superior in trouble by taking the boss's name in vain, he is booted out immediately, with no expressions of regret. Says a New York textile maker, who once discovered that an overzealous assistant was tapping other employees' telephones in an attempt to expose a thief: "I gave him 15 minutes to get the taps off-and then I fired...
Peter Bogdanovich is a film maker with talent enough to make anyone regret what he does not do with it. Targets (1968), like most first films, was rough and not fully assimilated, but for all its crudity it had a vigor and invention that Bogdanovich has not approached since. Its long climactic scene, involving a schizophrenic sniper picking off the patrons of a drive-in theater, was made with the kind of virtuosity that promised an audacious new director. With each subsequent film, the memory of Targets-as well as its promise-grows dimmer...
...actors, he at once casts most of the state into the dusk of memory and infuses the room with the state of mind the actors are projecting. Thus as Tom silently apologizes to Laura just after he has taunted and cursed his mother, the dark room broods behind his regret and her acceptance...