Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find it sad, and unsettling, that there are so many countries Roger Rosenblatt had to choose from...
...snow of '29 wasn't real snow," said one of Scott Fitzgerald's sad young men. "If you didn't want it to be snow, you just paid some money...
Italy's P.C.I, last month approved a policy paper that totally rejects Soviet-style Communism. Blaming the sad state of Eastern European regimes on the absence of genuine democracy, the document states heretically that orthodox Communism "ends up not only by killing liberty and creative energy but slows down the very economic, technological and cultural dynamism of society." Says Gianfranco Pasquino, professor of political science at the University of Bologna: "The Communist Party is now so far away from the Soviet Union that one can no longer speak of a possible break-the break has already taken place." That...
...owner, the Chicago Tribune Company, but the results of a five-year newspaper war in New York now seem clear. The Tribune company publicly put the News up for sale last month, and no takers have been forth-coming. The end of the Daily News would be a sad loss--its largely incorrect blood and guts reputation notwithstanding--and it would signal the direction of the newspaper business in the 1980s...
...Depression with opulently choreographed dream sequences that stopped just this side of camp. The characters, however rueful or ruthless, were also insatiably idealistic. They actually believed the words of the period's popular songs-so much so that they lip-synced the lyrics to the recordings, and their sad, drab lives dissolved into the art deco optimism of Hollywood musicals...