Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sad that a Democratic loss will be interpreted by some as a vote against a woman on the ticket...
...Frayn has broken the play in two. The first half is all cellos and sad small talk ("If you think this place is dull when you're here you should be here when you're not here"); the second half is flat-out farce with the tincture of domestic tragedy coloring the night sky. Ian McKellen is fine as Platonov, the country schoolmaster whose bitter gaiety attracts women to him like flies to wild honey. But the true star of Christopher Morahan's production-and, these days, of the entire National Theater-is Designer John Gunter...
...stammeringly shy childhood that was further complicated by dyslexia and asthma. Tumbling in gym classes before the age of two and dancing in studio theatricals by three, he started to apply these disciplines to diving at seven with a solitary single-mindedness that may seem a little sad. Socially, he is just now coming out of himself. "If you want to be the best, you have to sacrifice," he says. "This sounds so desperate, but I don't mean it the way it sounds. I didn't have anything else." Though Louganis has never pumped iron...
...Pope vs. the Sandinistas "I would wish to invite you to pray for the church of Nicaragua, which in recent days has lived through a sad event. It is especially serious, added to the trials already suffered there." Pope John Paul II's words, coming at the end of his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square last Wednesday, were unusually strong, but so was the provocation. Two days earlier, Nicaragua's Marxist-led Sandinista government had expelled ten foreign priests, four of them Spaniards, whom It accused of being involved in anti-government activities...
...Peter Paul and Mary album will present an effective mix of sad and allegorical folk songs, angry political songs, and just plain fun songs (like "Puff the Magic Dragon"). The songs, together, inspire the highest human virtues--compassion, justice, tolerance, and, something sorely needed in today's music, hope...