Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George develops a jealous and possessive affection for Simone, trying to please her aristocratic tastes in a sad, bumbling, endearing way, sipping tea instead of Bloody Marys. In one scene, a waiter approaches him, "Bloody Mary, right?" "No, I'd like a pot of tea," George replies in his wonderful Cockney accent. "Earl Grey or Lapsang Soochong?" "No, tea," he says...
...plot, although exciting and fun to watch, does not explore the seedy London underworld with as much force or power as other movies of its genre. The grimy teenage prostitutes are sad and pathetic, and the photography of Kings' Cross at night artistically blends darkness, sharp bright lights and soft tawdry neon colors, but the movie is missing the grittiness of Taxi Driver or harsher gangster films...
...credit, Pearson gives fair warning that his story is going to take some time in the unraveling and may indeed be more fun for the teller than the audience. While the death of the bald Jeeter is announced smack in the opening, the sad event is inched up on through a series of digressions, including one on the deterioration of the widow Mrs. Askew's drains and downspouts. Not until page 57 is the bald Jeeter laid to rest in the local cemetery of the fictional Neely, N.C., at which time it begins to become clear that the deceased...
...swift cooperation to authorities. Wilkis resigned from E.F. Hutton even before the SEC brought its case. Sokolow's lawyer said his client, who majored in economics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and earned a master's degree from the Harvard Business School, was experiencing a "terribly sad and difficult time for a young man of great decency and enormous promise." Wilkis agreed to pay $3.3 million, which represents stock-trading profits and penalties, while Sokolow will turn over $210,000, which includes fines and the money he made from selling information...
...That sad paradox is repeated, indeed intensified, throughout the black nations of the region. Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland depend upon Pretoria for all their oil. Lesotho gets all its electricity from South Africa. Almost every export and import of the three countries travels through South Africa. As if that were not enough, Pretoria's official exports within the continent have risen by 40% this year, and promise to reach a record $800 million. Any Western blow against South Africa could amount to a killer blow against many of the so-called frontline states. Warns a South African diplomat in London...