Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight by his father: "I love poaching. It's a sport. I know where the fish hides, in the deep pools at the banks underneath the roots. I tickle the salmon. He thinks I'm playing with him, which makes me sad because once I touch him he won't move. I slip the rabbit snare over his tail and jerk him out of the water. But as I get older, I find the fish looking at me, so nice, and then I say, 'Go on, have another chance,' and I throw it back." Derrick...
...delayed for three months by the troublesome El Nino current and spent the time listening to the BBC and brooding about nuclear warfare and Israel's invasion of Lebanon. In tapes he made at the time, his speech is painfully slow; photos he made of himself show a sad and serious face. When his boat broke up on the Barrier Reef, as he is careful to say, he was a mere 33 miles short of landfall...
...Japanese are so pacifistic that I believe a substantial number would run or surrender if attacked. It is sad that the U.S. has forced the government to begin assembling a military force primarily for economic reasons without considering the potential effect of such a move on Japanese society...
...planet Krull, under enemy attack from metallic meanies who could be the second front of Darth Vader's army. The hero: Prince Colwyn (Ken Marshall), risking his world to save the flame-tressed Lyssa (Lysette Anthony). His hearty crew: a wizened wizard named Ynyr (Freddie Jones), a sad-faced Cyclops (Bernard Bresslaw), the scabrous brigand Torquil (Alun Armstrong) and Ergo, the inept conjurer (David Battley). The villain: a reptilian Beast who looks like the Alien from the Black Lagoon...
...character here. The Beast's fortress contains vaulted corridors that resemble a vulture's rib cage; his lair is a rococo igloo; walls close in on Lyssa like giant pillows. The senior good guys, notably Ynyr and Cyclops, move with a certain sad majesty. The Cyclops' knowing wink (or is it a blink?) is a hint of mature fatalism: he knows too much about this world-our world-to participate wholeheartedly in its redemption...