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Along the way, Tartt tells the parallel story of the Ratliff family (Danny proves to be a pitiable sad sack, terrorized by his elder brother). The connections between the Ratliffs and Harriet's family make a kind of class history of the white South from Jefferson Davis to Lynyrd Skynyrd. If Tartt's tone softens a bit at the end, her unsentimental clarity avoids the feel-good coming-of-age-tale pitfalls that irritate Harriet. "She did not care for children's books in which the children grew up," Tartt writes, "as what 'growing up' entailed (in life...
...them in flagrante with the equipment Carpenter supplied. Then he was murdered, almost certainly by Carpenter. Auto Focus tells this story as affectlessly as we just have. It's a conscious aesthetic choice by director Paul Schrader, not an accident of ineptitude. But no matter--his objectification of sad and stupid material is neither tragic nor transgressive. It is just undramatic and uninvolving. --By Richard Schickel...
...never knew [Wamba] to leave a party early or call it a night,” Young said. “It is strange and sad for him to leave us so early...
...don’t know who plans these ironies, but they are very sad and very cruel,” said Nana Twum Danso ’94, who was to have visited Wamba in Africa on the day of his memorial service...
...anniversary "with lots of love," a computer disc detailing her personal accounts, a ceremonial sword, "One Lilac Dress with Beige Hanger and Cellophane Dust Cover," 13 cards and letters that "Mummy" wrote William, including one that begins "My darling Wombat." The bric-a-brac of the dead is always sad. That Diana's was picked through in a courtroom full of tabloid reporters taking shorthand was doubly so, but also powerfully reminiscent of her life, both tawdry and irresistible: little bits of the goddess preserved in plastic bags, relics of a media saint. Prosecutor William Boyce said Diana's mother...