Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which Meryl Streep is Anne and which Meryl Streep is Sarah. The acting is awesome, the script is terrific, the structure is brilliant, the scenery is beautiful and you'll leave the theater feeling miserable. By the way, this film, like the book, has a happy ending and a sad ending, take your pick. This is the One-Blank-Cartridge-In-The-Firing-Squad's-Guns School of Movie Making...
They're saying that it's a sad day for American political humor. Russell Baker has lowered his flag to half mast. Oliphant is mourning...
Having been born in 1947,1 am part of America's great postwar baby boom described in "Going After the Mightiest Market" [Sept. 14]. The sad aftermath is that in 30 or 40 years many of these 76 million "baby boomers" will be residents in overcrowded nursing homes. The Social Security fund, to which we have contributed, will be depleted. What now appears as the rosy future for the consumer can change to thorns a few years down the road...
Suspicion of impending doom because of the elimination of species stems from the Ehrlichs' first and constantly invoked example, which, sad to say, is laughable. "Imagine that, just before you are about to board a jet plane, you see a man busily prying rivets out of its wings. As you rush in a panic back down the gangplank, he calls out, "Don't worry, I've taken a lot of rivets out already and the wing hasn't fallen off yet!" This scenario is supposed to be analagous to losing a few more species: One more might not matter...
...even though he believes that Solidarity will continue to provide the same services that KOR did, Baranczak added, "It's a sad feeling, of course, to see the committee end. They were the best five years of my life--we all really felt as though we were doing something useful...