Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Deserves It: Macy's a dark horse if Fargo goes far; whatever the outcome, his shifty, stuttering car salesman was the subtlest, the saddest, and the funniest of this bunch...
...saddest things about Harvard is that associate professors who are extraordinary as scholars and teachers are asked to leave here because they are decided to be not as good as somebody else who may be much more senior," Skocpol said...
...with the good news comes the bad. The new drugs, it turns out, don't work for everyone. "At least 15% of patients don't respond," says Dr. Howard Grossman, whose New York City practice is largely devoted to treating AIDS. "That's the saddest thing. They watch other people get better. They have high hopes, and then nothing happens...
Since recrossing the Atlantic, she has begun to make waves. Her performance at a celebration of the film music of Duke Ellington at New York City's Lincoln Center in May startled and delighted those who heard it. As she took the stage to sing Ellington's Saddest Tale--performed by Holiday in 1935--her bearing was tentative, awkward. But when she started singing, her performance was said to be impeccably phrased, suffused with emotion; the New York Times said "she might as well have been channeling Billie Holiday...
...saddest thing is that Bob Dole, with 45 years of political experience, has been reduced to making an attack that does little more than allow the party loyalists to bask in the warmth of nostalgia for the days when they had Walter Mondale to run against. Dole has an economic plan that he does not believe in (as evidenced by the fact that he could bring himself to mention a 15 percent tax cut only when directly asked about it by the moderator) and one that the American people are not willing to buy into at a time of relative...