Word: saddest
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Stoppard, whose plays at minimum offer glorious wordplay and the shimmering surface of what seems to be Big Ideas, is at his funniest and saddest in Hapgood. This one is about physics, espionage, thriller novels, superpower paranoia, Star Wars technology, defectors, conflicts between work and homelife, and the possibilities for flimflammery in employing three sets of twins. The author's ardent anti-Communism seems to have evolved into a world- weariness reminiscent of John le Carre, in which the two camps of the cold war are morally equivalent players of a pointless, deadly game...
PERHAPS the saddest part of the Tawana Brawley sideshow in New York is that the people who will lose the most are innocent. If the case proceeds as it has to date, future Black victims will not be able to seek justice in racial crimes...
...60th birthday, and near enough to the Copa, to seem to make a full circle. Mantle was even there a little earlier, still leering at 56. The funniest line was Martin's: "I guess I can't go anywhere anymore," as if he had been at midnight Mass. The saddest was Yankee First Baseman Don Mattingly's unintentional uppercut: "Who would hit a 60-year-old man? That's like beating up your grandfather...
...SADDEST READING The obituary pages of Variety, which week after week showed how much show-business talent is being lost to AIDS, including Liberace, 67, Director Michael Bennett, 44, and Charles Ludlam, 44, the innovative creator of Manhattan's Ridiculous Theatrical Company...
...EVEN when the possible candidates address these non-Washington concerns they have failed to do so with vigor. Indeed perhaps the saddest thing about this year's crop of presidential timber is that few of them seem to be morally outraged. Every problem has a practical explanation and solution. And everything seems to be tied to economic competitiveness. Even when Gary Hart, the leading Democratic presidential candidate, argues that we should improve the nation's schools, he says it's because our Gross National Product is suffering...