Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work is quite complex, capturing a range of human emotions. "Some people say my pictures are sad. Some think they're funny. Funny and sad, aren't they really the same thing?" says Erwitt...
...matter some thought. For example, in The Great Railway Bazaar, his 1975 best-selling account of rattling through Asia, Theroux concluded that "the difference between travel writing and fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows." He added wistfully, "How sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction...
...threatened species must be formally declared, a process that may take another year. Then it could become a federal crime even to disturb the owl's habitat, and multitudes of buzz saws that have been felling the trees would have to stop. Loggers warn that unemployment would follow. Sad, but not as ineffably sad or final as extinction...
...guarantee plus commission, old and young stars typically stay four hours on a Saturday and Sunday in an assembly line of dreams. Behind their tables, the idols scarcely speak or stir. "No time for personalizing" is the rule of the promoters, who keep the kids moving along like sad-eyed paratroopers. It's said that quick-draw artist Pete Rose averages two seconds a $15 scrawl. According to the Boston Globe, Ted Williams made $100,000 in one weekend...
Reading this slight, elegant book is a bit like having a guided tour through an album of family snapshots. There, notes your cicerone, is Great-Great-Uncle George, who built that incredible castle in North Carolina. Here is Great-Aunt Adele, blithe and beautiful, seated next to her sad cousin Consuelo -- she had to marry a duke, you know...