Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sad thing when you have to buy an election," the outspokenly conservative 65-year-old Boston City Councilor said of the much-publicized contest. "My wonderful staff and family did not want me to leave Boston and convinced me that I could not raise the money to conduct a good campaign...
Surveying the sad faces of the unattached people around me, those who had no table of their own, I decided there aren't enough tables. The table system should be expanded to include all special interest groups, not just those related to sex, nationality, sexual orientation, sexual disorientation, language, or career ambitions...
...were the Marcos shoes, like the billions of stolen dollars, merely grotesque? The Russian word poshlost suggests the transcendent vulgarity at work in the Marcos spectacle. Poshlost is something preposterously overdone but without self-knowledge or irony. It is comic and sad and awful. An 18th century French merchant of great wealth named Beaujean came to the same dead end as Marcos with his Swiss gold and his ruined kidneys. "He owned amazing gardens," the historian Miriam Beard wrote of Beaujean, "but he was too fat to walk in them . . . He had countless splendid bedrooms and suffered from insomnia...
Movie Star Harris (The Right Stuff, Places in the Heart) finds simmering violence and sudden affection in this man. O'Leary foretokens a sad future when he naively envisions an assembly line as an exhibition hall for his competitive drive and skill. As the youth, Rapp makes the stage glow in what could have been a formulaic speech about his having yearned to be an actor even before he knew that the profession existed. The finest performance is Ivey's as the play's forceful center, the clangy-voiced, flighty, phrase- turning mother with a heart of gold...
...Yale, the loss was a sad end to a season which saw it win 20 games for the first time in its history and capture second place behind Harvard in the regular season ECAC standings...