Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olson "When I first walked into the locker room at the first game and saw every one dressed and ready to go. I almost cried, It was really sad...
...Some of a staff of 70?one of whom is still a teen-ager?are putting in seven-day, 90-hour weeks on Mackintosh, working under Jobs. As a boss, Jobs is admired for courting long chances, but, adds a friend, "something is happening to Steve that's sad and not pretty, something related to money and power and loneliness. He's less sensitive to people's feelings. He runs over them, snowballs them." Adds Jeff Raskin, a former Apple publications manager: "He would have made an excellent King of France...
...adapting his Pulitzer-prizewinning play about a high school basketball team's 24th reunion with the coach under whom it won the state title, Jason Miller is fouled by the imperatives of the film medium. The intimacy of the tight shot tends to expose the characters' sad life stories, since the big win is a tissue of clichés. Miller's busy direction keeps isolating each player, breaking up the dazzling and distracting team moves he had written for the play. In these circumstances, the crises and revelations of the evening (one teammate is having...
...sharp contrast, the case of British Diplomat Rhona Ritchie, 30, was merely sad. She was convicted of relaying the contents of confidential cables to her lover, an Egyptian diplomat, while she served at the British embassy in Israel. Attorney General Havers condemned her indiscretions as "more foolish than wicked," noting that the cables' contents would eventually have become known in any case. Already dismissed from the foreign service, Ritchie received a nine-month suspended sentence...
...Greece and Denmark whose marriage to the irresponsible King Carol II was the stuff of tragic drama; in Lausanne. Seven years after their wedding in 1921, the strong-willed Queen divorced her recklessly unfaithful husband, and later entered a quiet European exile, declaring: "My life has been a sad one for years, and now I am going out into the dark:" Moved by her dignity and grace, Rumanians urged her to resume her royal duties, but thereafter she served only as an unassuming Queen Mother and adviser to her son Michael, who was King for seven years until...