Word: sob
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acting Stewart was capable of. MGM director W.S. Van Dyke II pegged him as "unusually usual." To the brass at Metro, who signed Stewart in 1935, the label meant he was a sensitive fellow with zero sex appeal--not the stuff of celebrity. So he was made to sob through After the Thin Man (pssst: he dunnit), shuffle through Born to Dance (he wasn't), swivel on skates in Ice Follies...
...yellows, purples, greens. For most of them it is their first time in a synagogue. They stare with respectful interest at the formally dark-clad mourners enacting the sad familiar rituals of funerals--the brief embraces and the exchanges of helpless looks. A few of the students tremble and sob. One, verging on hysterics, has to be led away. The first of the eulogists, a college buddy of Jonathan's, praises him as "one who knew how to love and teach kids...
...museum retrospectives and is the subject of Michael Coveney's comprehensive, reverent biography The World According to Mike Leigh (HarperCollins). But Secrets & Lies could be his first movie to break through to a wide audience. It is easy to imagine dropping into a mall this fall and hearing America sob along with Cynthia...
...solution to NBC's abominable television coverage was to buy a second VCR. We taped each program as it was aired and meanwhile watched our videotape of the previous program, fast-forwarding through all of Bob Costas, Greg Gumbel, the advertising and the fuzzy-pictured sob stories. What a relief! ROBERT I. LOUTTIT St. Helena Island, South Carolina...
...been written for pop songbird Kay Starr. The source of Cline's material hardly mattered. She made it all seem part of a thrilling emotional biography, drawing out a note until it was exhausted, then punctuating it with a catch in her throat that sounded like the small sob of a strong woman...