Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is no second coming in this novel. There isn't even a premonition--only the sad spectacle of a writer at the end of his ingenuity, forced to undermine the foundations of his best work out of desperation or delusion. His characters don't make a new start at all, just a very, very old ending...
...sense of loyalty to a city they had come to love. "Jerusalem is different from any other city I've ever seen," said Venezuelan Ambassador Luis La Corte. "Its air, its light, its physical presence make it a completely distinct town. I will miss it very much." With sad resignation, Panama's Marina Mayo, at 35 the youngest envoy and the only female, took a soldierly view. "You have to follow orders," she said. "One is not entitled to personal feelings." Not so the Dominican Republic's José Villanueva, 60, the popular dean of the city...
...from time to time to give lawnmowers, car windshields, even a motorcycle policeman's helmet a few flicks with his bright red feather duster. Along the way, the clowns stopped off at two hospitals, a mental institution and a nursing home, where they dispensed balloons and hugs to sad-eyed children and old people...
...left New York feeling very sad," says Actress Shelley Winters, who came to Madison Square Garden as a guest of the California delegation. "After the vote on whether to open the convention, I felt that it was a script I had read before. The whole thing seemed scenarioed and choreographed." The disappointed Kennedy fan said she voted for Carter in 1976, but may not do it again. "This may be the first time since I was 21 that I won't vote," she lamented. What about fellow Hollywood Veter an Ronald Reagan? Said Shelley: "I met him during...
...without stumbling. He is equally adept at explaining the rise of sun worship in the '20's or at arguing that the travel books of the period deserve attention as works of narrative art. Some of the volumes he likes best are no longer in print, a sad situation that his own book may help remedy. A single passage by Evelyn Waugh in Labels is more than enough to justify all that roaming around that so many did: "I do not think I shall ever forget the sight of Etna at sunset; the mountain almost invisible...