Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JEWEL IN THE CROWN (PBS). With understated urgency, this 14-week series (which runs until March) sketched a sovereign vision of the long, sad twilight of the British raj in India...
...have been a widow for less than a month. One day when I was feeling particularly sad, I went to my husband's office, turned on his automatic answering machine, then hurried to the nearest public telephone. I dialed the office number and heard my husband's deep, mellow voice. It was the best medicine that could have been prescribed...
...haunted souls with understated urgency. As the gawky Daphne, Wooldridge is a particular marvel. Eyes wide and full of a startled innocence, she galumphs through life with such sweet diffidence that plainness itself seems radiant. An equally luminous pathos surrounds Dame Peggy Ashcroft's Barbie Batchelor, a sad little figure of baffled devotion who has little to do save muddle through her final days "very tired and old and far from home...
When the truck came, it took the children to Hamidia Hospital. More than 350 doctors, 1,000 nurses and 500 medical students were there to treat the people who came wandering in, suffering from the poisonous gas. All 750 beds were occupied, and the grounds looked like a vast, sad encampment, marked by everlasting misery and agony, spread far and wide...
...perhaps gloomily reminiscent of Nathaniel West's Miss Lonely hearts, but Crocket says, "You don't get jaded. You just look at those kids. They're as sad as they were 24 years ago-they're as sad as they were 100 years...