Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mayor as a crack smoker (well, O.K., pick another drug). But by the mid-'90s, the roofs on many city schools were caving in. Thousands of people were dying of AIDS, but management was so abysmal that millions in federal AIDS dollars sat unspent. At perhaps the city's saddest, most surreal moment, morgue officials said they didn't have enough money to refrigerate the dead. Outraged residents--even some hard-core Barryites--began to demand change. Finally, Congress and the White House stepped in, and over the next few months most of the powers of the mayor, city council...
...audience. If you are a movie comedian who is graduating to more substantial roles but is still most famous for having made teenage boys laugh by pretending to talk with your buttocks, this is an allegory to which you can surely relate. "To me, it's the saddest thing in the world to see a comedian at 60 doing the same character and the same act," says Jim Carrey, 36. His odd, moving performance in The Truman Show, an odd, moving film, should ensure that 24 years from now he will have more career opportunities than, say, Jeff Foxworthy...
...saddest consequence of randomization is that in forcing me to integrate, I have lost my freedom of choice. The logic of a Civil Rights movement that attempted to make more options accessible to minorities has been warped to justify Harvard's attempt to deny options to everyone...
...everyone in this story is a little deluded. And the saddest part--the part Bipin and Ellen and, yes, Faye all have to answer for--is that the victims of those delusions, somewhere on the run with their mother, are those two little girls, who never asked for any of this...
...much more than a rock singer. She was a tragic heroine whose character summed up all the contradictions, frustrations and despairs of life under 30. Last week, on a day that at least superficially seemed to be less lonely than most, she died on the lowest and saddest of notes. Returning to her Hollywood motel room after a late-night recording session and some hard drinking with friends at a nearby bar, she apparently filled a hypodermic needle with heroin and shot it into her left arm. The injection killed...