Word: saddest
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WHEN WALTER F. Mondale finally picks his running mate, one hopes this week, he will bring to a merciful close one of the saddest charades in recent political memory. Never before has a politician on the brink of such high office debased himself more before his supporters...
...Duarte's U.S. backing, from both the White House and Congress, gives him unprecedented clout. Duarte has promised to start rooting out the deadly henchmen by disbanding the treasury police, allegedly the most brutish of the security forces. Bringing the killers to justice, however, is another story. The saddest legacy of El Salvador's recent past may be how many have been cowed into silence. As a villager in Metalio put it, "The best thing to do is forget about it, because if you open your mouth you are asking for death...
Bridges must have spent a lot of time recently watching bad French movies. Every cliché of existential anomie - the aimless driving, the heavy smoking, the elliptical dialogue, the motel-room angst - has been imported to the seedier suburbs of Los Angeles. Saddest of all is the use to which Winger, who shares laurels with Sissy Spacek as the most affecting and natural of Hollywood's bright young actresses, has been put. Forced to play a woman with no past and little presence, who is part blah and part blasé, Winger discards her quirky charms to walk through...
...Saddest Alien: E.T., who found that being box-office champ could not keep him (and his creator Steven Spielberg) from getting trampled in the Oscar race by Gandhi...
...Hirohito remains haunted by the war that claimed the lives of 2.3 million Japanese soldiers and 800,000 civilians. As he told TIME in a rare interview in 1975, "The saddest thing in my reign was the Second World War." Some revisionists now say that the Emperor's melancholy reserve masks the spirit of a shrewd and scheming warmonger. Most historians, however, contend that in spite of, or indeed because of, his unassuming pacifism, the unworldly scholar was often unable to dominate his nation's ruthless army. In 1941, for example, Japan's leaders turned to Hirohito...