Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then Jerry Fielding's rueful music grows percussively insistent, and breaks into a Rod Hart song about how an Arizona morning could make a Prescott roamer almost want to settle down. The landscape is hard and scrubby, but its color is warm. This is home. Bonner stops at a gas station-fruit market, buys fuel, and apples, and feeds one to his horse. Another frontier Cadillac passes him when he's back on the open road, driven by two rodeo friends with two pretty young ladies. "How you feeling, cowboy?" calls one. "Lonely, right now." "Have a taste...
...stake. In international play, where brain-saving draws are a routine matter, Fischer is the only grand master who rarely agrees to settle for a tie game. Even when he is far ahead in a tournament and could coast, he usually answers a request for a draw with a rueful, smiling refusal and then fights on until that magic moment when "I can see their ego crumbling." Says Bobby: "The game, not the tournament result, is the main thing...
...elements that have established her reputation-tart humor, the noisy, intricate chorales of Southern social life-this is a more inward, contemplative book than any she has written. Its concern is with what dies with the individual and what can be salvaged through memory and feeling. Its tone is rueful and uncompromising, especially in regard to the way people in this world treat loved ones about to enter the next. "What burdens we lay on the dying," the heroine reflects, "seeking to prove some little thing that we can keep to comfort...
...Communism or the Germans' national socialism- he chose the latter. This film follows De la Mazière all the way to the Eastern front where, in the uniform of the Waffen SS as part of the infamous Charlemagne division, he fought against the Russians. Rueful, logical, charming, ready to regret but not to grovel, French to his fingertips, De la Mazière, despite what he did, finally seems a sympathetic and even scrupulous man whose experience adds a small human dimension to a chilling chapter of history...
...early for most of us to mourn the passing of our adolescence. We may have to be well past it before we can mourn. Maturity picks out in memory the high points of youth--and leaves the low points to oblivion or rueful laughter. But who can deny that adolescence can be a hell-in-the-mind...