Word: sad
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...snob and very critical of everything I see, but I thought Speed Racer was simply brilliant entertainment from top to bottom. It's been at least a decade since I've seen a movie more than once in the theater, but I saw Speed Racer three times. It was sad to see it flop and be critically savaged, but I appreciate - and wholeheartedly agree with - your adding it to the "Top 10 Movies" of 2008. Denny Zartman, Atlanta...
...kind of atmosphere. We love the cold water, but Coney Island is really very much a special place for all of us. I know there are development plans going on - they've been going on for years now, and it's changing even as we speak - so I feel sad about that; it won't be the same. Whatever changes do take place out there, as long as there's still the beach and the water, we're going to remain there no matter what. We are the longest living landmark. That's our home...
Mickey Spillane and Chandler, however, remain key to understanding Crumley, whose unflinching violence recalls the former and whose tough-guy poetry invokes the latter. A search for redemption in his work links Crumley to Ross Macdonald, but Crumley wrote characters who were more real, sad and believably flawed than any created by his predecessors...
...year of existence; the Lions have been around since the Great Depression, which for their fans hasn't really ended. In fact, the Lions, who haven't had a winning season since 2000, have just finished off the NFL's worst eight-year run since 1950. "It's pretty sad that it's come to this," said Detroit center Dominic Raiola...
...Cross, leave them alone,' but now they're like, 'We'll hurt you too.'" It can be particularly unnerving treating wounded criminals with their friends and relatives standing by. "I have had these guys threatening to kill me unless I save the man's life," he says. "It's sad to think we could lose our lives at the hand of these narcos...