Word: sad
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...crisis. Thankfully, his Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth also generated powerful publicity. But, you Americans around him, please stop goading him to get into politics again. Leave him alone. In one of the pictures, Gore's liquid eyes somehow give me the impression that deep down inside he is sad-probably about the world in general and humanity in particular. Let him be. He's greater than the presidency. Sung-Chau Cheng, Kaohsiung, Taiwan...
...Honoring Lives Lost After reading "One Day in Iraq," I hope the American people never forget the pain of war [June 4]. What a sad day for the U.S. and the families of these young men. Aureliano De La Torre said, "Now that my son is gone, there is a vacancy in Iraq. Maybe the President would like to send one of his daughters over there to continue to fight in Jesse's place." Let us not forget that Bush himself passed on the chance to fight in a war. After reading the stories of these six men, it seems...
After reading "One day in Iraq," I hope the American people never forget the pain of war [June 4]. What a sad day for the U.S. and the families of these young men. Aureliano De La Torre said, "Now that my son is gone, there is a vacancy in Iraq. Maybe the President would like to send one of his daughters over there to continue to fight in Jesse's place." Let us not forget that Bush himself passed on the chance to fight in a war. After reading the stories of these six men, it seems the vacancies will...
...than tiresome, because there is no reason to believe there's a real link between their troubles and their talents. An off-stage battle with booze or drugs doesn't necessarily add depth or soul to their performances. On the contrary, the history of show business is replete with sad stories that are redeemed by disciplined hard work. Plenty of stars refuse to trade on their hard-knock lives; they entertain us, not by forcing us to wallow in their miseries, but by causing us to forget our own for an hour...
...pretty much leaves us with Cerdan, radiating good nature and a casual pleasure in his own celebrity, to make us feel good for a few moments, and with Piaf's uncanny voice, still thrilling, still moving in her classic songs. It's easy to make us believe that her sad life conditioned the rueful timbre she imparts to her music. Maybe too easy. It's possible that her natural vocal quality was the one lucky accident in her unlucky life. Which, considering the fame, money and sympathetic regard she collected was not - considered from an objective viewpoint - all that unfortunate...