Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like so many imperialists. The offense was severe enough to draw a stiff protest from Pankow-one of many objections from Communist countries to China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Even Cuba's Fidel Castro, no believer in gentle Communism, denounced the Peking paranoids. "It is a sad circumstance," lamented a Havana editorial, "that the People's Republic of China has given the enemies of socialism cause for laughing and taunting." Russia weighed in with its own protest after Red Guards halted and humiliated the Soviet charge d'affaires by holding a portrait...
...Vermeer's pensive, passive women that viewers have always found most memorable. None has caused more speculation than the portrait of a girl in a lemon yellow jacket and porcelain blue turban-Vermeer's favorite colors-with the inimitable pearl at her ear (opposite). Shy, sad, ingenuous yet intelligent, imbued with an air of mystery that has brought comparisons with the Mona Lisa and of devotion that matches a Bellini Madonna, she elicited Vermeer's greatest powers of portrayal-and through all the years kept the secret of her identity...
...blues is a quality of burning sincerity called "soul." "Soul is something that you feel within yourself and you gotta give to the people," explains Singer-Guitarist Magic Sam. "It's hardship, what you've been through. I love it even though it makes me sad, because that's what I am." Adds retired Harmonica Player Shaky Jake: "Blues are the true story, the truest music I ever heard in my life...
...with hair like yesterday's escarole and a bottom the size of a hope chest. Adolfo (Francois Perier) is a big-city bachelor with a discouraged mustache and legs like fuzzy yellow pencils. They meet after he answers her ad in a lonely-hearts column, and in this sad, hilarious, faultless little film by Italy's Antonio Pietrangeli, they begin and end in a single day the least hopeful attempt at pairing since the dish ran away with the spoon...
...Last Jew in. America takes the assimilation into the American community of new-generation intellectual Jews and makes from it a sad-funny tale. In a college campus presumably similar to Montana State College, where Fiedler used to teach English, he gathers a handful of Jewish faculty members who have become more American than ham on rye and throws the tragic mysteries of Yom Kippur at them. They don talliths (prayer shawls) over their tweeds and attend the services of Louis Himmelfarb, dying unassimilated of cancer in a Catholic hospital. The old Jew scandalizes their skeptical liberalism by insisting...