Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twenty campaign managers from the staffs of all major presidential candidates gathered at the three-day conference and came to the same somewhat rueful but obvious conclusion--1976 was not the year of the Liberal...
...politely, a "middleman." Somnath learns soon enough that to be a success, certain principles must be modified, others scrapped entirely. By the end of the film, as he tries desperately to procure a textile contract, Somnath has literally become a pimp. The Middleman is understated, sorrowful, full of sly, rueful humor. Ray remains one of the cinema's best poets of the lost chance and a vanishing culture...
LIKE FEAR OF FLYING, Gray's novel ends on a rueful but upbeat note that seems unsupported by the bulk of the novel. Perhaps it's time someone wrote a dark feminist novel; if the problems are as agonizing as Gray tells us they are, why do the heroines always manage to breeze through them by the end? There must be a number of women whose lives have been poisoned by the conflicts Stephanie supposedly resolves. All Gray's protagonist has to offer in the way of hard-earned wisdom is a cutesy line about taking the bad with...
...common knowledge that Wayne had his own bout with cancer - his testament that "I licked the Big C with the love of God and a lot of guts" is as well known as any line from his movies - and The Shootist trades on this fact. Besides, all the sober, rueful honor laid on here is premature. Let us hope it stays that way for a long time...
Three-Day Bat. The humor is more rueful in a short piece called XRay, written for The New Yorker in 1930. By that time Lardner's health was failing. He was drinking heavily, though still writing lightly. At the end the author is being carted to a hospital, his Lardner tone still unmistakable: "In an ambulance they made you ride lying down, whereas you can take your choice in a taxi...