Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questions about the health of CIA Director William Casey and the emotional stability of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, and a wave of Yuletide firings at the National Security Council. While the scandal progressed, seemingly with a momentum of its own, Reagan grew more and more isolated. "It is really sad watching this," sighed a White House confidant. "It is painful...
Already the stuff of a pretty good team had been gathered by Ernie Accorsi, the general manager since 1984, when Schottenheimer replaced Sam Rutigliano eight games and seven losses into another sad season. Rutigliano's locker-room slogans had grown tinny; Schottenheimer had them removed. A bespectacled and thoughtful sort of 43, he favors the English major he once was at Pitt more than the linebacker he tried to be in Buffalo. As Accorsi is inclined to credit Schottenheimer, the coach is given to praising his assistants...
...like many a Christmas package, Crimes of the Heart neglects to deliver the goods. Once a comedy, it has now become a sad-sack elegy. The events that Henley and her cast pumped life into on Broadway have lost their juice. What went wrong? Is it that the intimate conversations, the teasings of Southern- gothic catastrophes, the colloquial bitchery ("She was known all over Copiah County as cheap Christmas trash"), the climactic conciliations -- all of which seemed fresh, if not downright impudent onstage -- play smug and stilted on the big screen? Or has something precious been lost? When does...
While the season doesn't officially begin until Sunday, I have felt nothing but its cold since a sad night in late October...
...problem here is more subtle and pervasive than the majority acknowledges. The sad but revealing story of Eisert's final club affiliation tells us more about Harvard College today than it does about Eisert in particular. The story may yet have a happy ending if it causes undergraduates campuswide to take another close look at the clubs and revise their clouded thinking...