Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oscar winner ANNA PAQUIN likes acting, but she has a tiny complaint. "Not all roles for children have definite personalities," she says. "They're just there. I've been very lucky." Having played two of the saddest girls in moviedom--The Piano's Flora and the young Jane Eyre--Paquin, 14, keeps the melancholy theme going in her next film, Fly Away Home. She plays Amy, who moves in with her estranged inventor father after her mother dies in a car crash. She has to teach wild geese she finds to fly, or a wildlife officer will clip their wings...
...Quite frankly, they gave me everything I could have hoped for," said Berry. "It is a $600 million operation, with great career growth. But it was the saddest day of my life to say 'yes,' when for anyone else, it would have been the happiest...
...whose name lives on in the law her death inspired, is a case in point--have led us to gloss over complexities and grasp at the closest semblance of security, even if in the process we destroy the sacred values of our society and brand people forever. Perhaps the saddest testament to our feeling of disintegration is that we are willing to give up on the possibilities of personal change to secure even a modicum of societal stability...
...party's President. In a stunning vote, 105 House Republicans sided with Gingrich to defeat the plan; only 71 voted with Bush. "I was astonished that they didn't understand we were the party of no taxes," Gingrich says. "I do think the actual fight was one of the saddest things I've ever been involved...
...when she was 11 months old, two Protestant gunmen burst through the front door of her Belfast home and shot her father dead. At the time, she was being held by her mother, who was watching television. "My first daddy died in the Troubles," she recalled. "It was the saddest day of my life. Now it is nice and peaceful. I like having peace and quiet for a change instead of people shooting and killing. My Christmas wish is that peace and love will last in Ireland forever...