Word: somberly
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...pages), first-time novelist David Maine picks on Noah again, and with good reason. The story of Noah, crowded with incident though it is, gets just four brief chapters in Genesis, and Maine has a terrific time romping around in the gaps between the verses, mouthing off in the somber silences between those Old Testament phrases. How does it feel to be 600 years old, as Noe (Maine uses archaic spellings for biblical names) was at the time of the flood? The Bible offhandedly mentions giants--what were those dudes like? Noe's three sons had wives, who presumably...
...only recent painting done posthumously, this somber J.F.K., from a photo chosen by Jackie, speaks more to his assassination than to his vigor...
Unlike the somber stuff of Cicero, ancient Rome’s most famous orator, Agarwalla says his speech is lighthearted...
...Even this season?s nominated musicals are not the usual load of high-kicking fluff. One of the four Best Musical contenders, Caroline, or Change, is somber meditation on race relations, focusing on a Jewish boy growing up in the South during the 1960s and his family?s black maid. The second-biggest nomination getter (after the musical Wicked) is Assassins, Stephen Sondheim?s dark musical about the killers or would-be killers of American Presidents. Even the new revival of Fiddler on the Roof has been reconceived in darker tones than many audience members (and critics) were prepared...
...Lifting the Shroud The image of flag-covered coffins being reverently cared for is not an invasion of privacy; it is somber proof that our troops were willing to lay down their lives for their commitment [May 3]. What is the Bush Administration afraid of? That at some point the country will figure out there are far too many coffins coming home? The cost of those lives demands to be acknowledged, not just by grieving families but also by the nation that called them to service. (The Rev.) Christine Miller Waldorf...