Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sound monotonous to an ambitious artist. Like Chaplin after The Great Dictator, Allen may have felt he had outgrown both the comic character he created and inhabited and the kind of movie his audience expected of him. And so Allen has pulled his persona out of shape, stretching the sad-clown face to accommodate loftier musings. In reaction, moviegoers have pulled back: a Woody Allen movie is not the purring money machine it used...
...does he insist on defending so aggressively defendants who are up to their ears in guilt? His answer is deceptively simple. There's nobody else to do it. The sad part is, he's probably right...
...rather than sad, Rose's obsession has always made some people mad. The thing is, Rose won't even walk when he gets a walk. At an All-Star Game several years ago, Aaron was berating Joe Morgan over what an infernal hot dog Rose was, and Morgan was shaking with laughter. "You sound like me before I played with him every day," Morgan said. "He plays the game that way because it's the only way he knows how to play it, probably the only way he can play it. He gives everything...
...what will be his main satisfactions? "That I was durable, that I was consistent. Oh, and when someone's chasing my records and they ask me to come to the ballpark, I'll be there." But the time is not near. "You know," Rose says, a little sad, "I'm starting to get letters from people now saying, 'Quit making a big deal of your age.' But that's the one thing you can't change: the day you were born...
...Nobody ever calls you when they're be having themselves. As a rule, you always get called when people are at their worst. It's sad. It depresses me." Yet they go on doing the best that they can. The tedious side of policework rarely figures in TV serials or bestselling novels. Midnights offers a healthy antidote to all those shoot-'em-ups, a reminder that those assigned to protect are often vulnerable and quietly heroic . -By Paul Gray