Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sad to read these Soviet statements. But it is also a warning to the American people . . . not to see conflict as inevitable, accommodation as impossible, and communication as nothing more than an exchange of threats...
While Lincoln Hospital represents for many Bronx residents a sad comment on how our nation has allowed the namesake of a great American statesman to languish, underfunded and struggling to meet the health needs of its impoverished and largely minority clientele, Lindsay Anderson in Britannia Hospital has given us a bitingly, blackly humorous look at the other extreme. The good Britannia Hospital could hardly be better equipped, or more doted on by a loving government. The film, which spans just one-day--the 500th anniversary of the hospital--encompasses the dedication of the fabulously expensive Millar Center for Advanced Surgical...
...Passages). "Defying Dad was the main reason I married Jim," she says. "Also, unlike Dad, he was very quiet." Alexander seems content to accept in large part Harris's self-analysis, and indeed never questions why Harris needed to indulge in this sort of speculation. It is ironic and sad that Alexander fails to analyze her subject in the depth crucial to a defense of Jean Harris. For she believes that Harris's defense in court failed for the same reason. "In his opening statement, Joel Aurnou [the defense attorney] had told the jury, "the answers to the elements that...
...demeanor of adolescent rebellion-as the kind of kid who got A's on tests and F's in behavior and took equal pride in both-can make him appear undisciplined. In reality, he brings to his work the same dogged determination that carried him from a "sad rat" freshman to a "sharp sergeant" at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. Raised by a strict Baptist mother in El Paso, Donaldson returned to attend Western Texas College. After graduate school at the University of Southern California and a stint in the Army, he came back to Texas...
...sad that only this few people are crazy. Where are the massed armies of insanity? A hundred thousand people marched on the Pentagon. Maybe it's because that was on a weekend and this is the middle of the week...