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Word: sadnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giving 'Em the Old One-Two | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Happy Loving Couples | 3/13/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Aladdinescence | 3/12/1981 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee on El Salvador Petitions Senator Tsongas | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Siddharthu Mazumdar, | Title: Legal Complications | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

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