Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just announced that he would now consider retirement, laughed at the memory. The smiles died when Hamilton added: "If David retired, I'd be devastated. It wouldn't be the Nationals, it wouldn't be the Worlds if David were gone. I'd be sad." So would the figure-skating world, which has profited from their courage and tenacity as much as Hamilton and Santee have thrived on their rivalry. -By B.J. Phillips, Reported by Jamie Murphy/Hartford
...again, he walks the slender line between racy humor and misogyny. Ugo Tognazzi--with the wise restraint he displayed in the first film--underplays Renato, the patient husband who holds on to just a little bit of his machismo. This first scene, while breezy and amusing, lacks energy--a sad omen of feeble scenes to come...
...ensemble, clearly under-rehearsed, doesn't really gel, but there is nice work by lots of capable actors. Among Mayer's previous collaborators, Woodward Wickham is an unmagical magician and Andrea Portago a plebian Lady, but Francis Gitter has a compelling presence, rivetingly sad eyes, and moments of gaunt, tranquil beauty as Aladdin's mother, and Vincent Canzoneri is a wittily forthright Scholar Wu. As the Grand Wazir, David Prum reveals a precious comic style, a sublimely funny blend of ham and deadpan, and Jenny Cornuelle, a most impudently regal actress, is a flashing, mesmerizing Sultan. Maybe best...
Ecksurom said that Tsongas was pleased with the petition, but commented that although the situation in El Salvador is a "sad one," nothing can be done "right away" to resolve...
...Those of us who will never be able to introduce ourselves as Harvard Law students are reminded that they too are human. We observe the self-effacing foolery of a 3L with an almost litigious inability to communicate his desires to the women he finds attractive, the oh-so-sad dilemma of a voluptuous female law student who can not escape her retinue of pining creeps, and the pitiful machinations of Irving deWurmme, a fat and dirty slob who drools over the opposite sex from behind his text books...