Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK by Saul Bellow. An eminent botanist is the hapless hero of the Nobel laureate's rueful, comic tale of love and money among the intellectuals...
...without romance. An odd-sounding phrase, perhaps, from the man who wrote the gushy words of head-over-heels devotion to Maria for West Side Story, the anthem to unrequited passion, Losing My Mind, for Follies and the rueful look at love out of synch, Send In the Clowns, for A Little Night Music. Each of the 14 shows for which he has been composer, lyricist or both has been shot through with emotion. His latest, Into the Woods, which opened last month and promptly became Broadway's newest musical hit, with advance sales climbing to $2.5 million, embraces every...
...land," he says. "Army helicopters buzz here every morning." In February 1986 Oposa and his friends danced in the streets when Aquino came to power. Now they often sit around his comfortable home and complain about the way the country is run. The lawyer sometimes ends the discussions with rueful sarcasm: "Well, at least we have freedom...
...feel that writing should be a matter of opening a vein and bleeding have never entirely approved of Kurt Vonnegut, whose murmurous style seems as easily achieved as respiration. If the man simply breathes his stuff out, can he be producing anything substantial? He can, of course. Vonnegut's rueful, wondering satire in Slaughterhouse Five, Player Piano and half a dozen other books says "Goodbye, better luck next time" to human society in the late 20th century. That said, however, an admirer must admit that Vonnegut's novelizing occasionally ticks on reflexively when there seems to be nothing in particular...
...insisted that she could stay in public office and also campaign. When her husband rather tactlessly suggested last January that his wife would have to leave her job eventually, she sharply rebuked him. The Senator, who plans to announce his candidacy formally in the next two months, turned charmingly rueful. They both made a joke of it, but she was genuinely upset. "I've rarely seen her angry," says her former assistant, Mari Maseng, now communications director of the Dole campaign, "but she was annoyed...