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...narrator into a figure of considerable strength and poignancy. Fay thinks of her old performances: "Only Make-Believe, runs the song. And You Are My Heart's Desire. And I'll Be Loving You Always. But though the words are affirmative the melodies are in a minor key, and sadder than they know." Life has not passed her by. It has simply not given her enough time to learn how to live...
...Salonga are repeating (indeed, enhancing) their West End triumphs. She is incandescently in command of the stage; he still gets the sardonic laughs owed to his Dickensian lampoon of a conniver, yet has transmuted him into a full-blown tragic figure, a victim of global politics all the sadder for being so streetwise. They are joined in the spotlight by Willy Falk in the role of Kim's G.I. lover, Chris, a part that was a cipher in London. Falk finds charm, erotic fervor and moral confusion in a man who serves as a metaphor for the U.S.'s blundering...
...noon on Sept. 3, Chamberlain rose in the Commons -- newly outfitted with blackout curtains -- and announced that his years of effort to appease Hitler had ended in failure. "This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me," he said. "Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have believed in during my public life has crashed into ruins. There is only one thing left for me to do: that is to devote what strength and powers I have to forwarding the victory of the cause for which we have...
Finally, boxing legend Sugar Ray Robinson, 63, died yesterday. The world is a little bit sadder today...
...doubt, abandoning his son for a game would have seemed the greater treachery. Many fans these days believe that baseball players who turn their heroism to capital, selling autographs to kids (Mickey Mantle earns more from signing his , name than he ever did from playing ball), are committing far sadder infidelities than Boggs...