Word: sorrowed
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...jungles without beginning or end, was a flash of episodic, aleatory explosions; it was modernism brought to war. And a new kind of war demanded a new look at the war-movie genre. Platoon fills the bill. It is a huge black slab of remembrance, chiseled in sorrow and anger -- the first Viet Nam Memorial movie...
...Sorrow and the Pity, Marcel Ophuls' documentary of the French Occupation, the novel's barrage of impressions and opinions assaults, even implicates, the reader. Derisive voices chant an anti-Vichy song. A housewife prepares makeshift tea out of water and carrot tops. The odor of filth rises from the streets. Meanwhile, the heated voices of a cautious bourgeois and a young radical debate questions that offer no moral answers...
...days after the killing, up to 2 million people streamed into the streets in an unprecedented outpouring of sorrow and shock, transforming Aquino's funeral into the largest procession in the country's history. In the weeks and months that followed, street vendors and socialites, businessmen and radicals all awoke from years of resignation to cry out their rage. Yet the official opposition to Marcos remained fatally factious, divided into more than a dozen self-seeking groups, each of them tainted either by extremist positions, associations with the government or long years of failure...
That was 50 years ago. Since then the true story has been told only in fragmentary fashion, as the facts filtered through decades of unrelenting Soviet denial. Fittingly, another poet, Robert Conquest, has now come forward to write The Harvest of Sorrow, the first major scholarly book on the horrors that struck Pasternak speechless. The author of five books of poetry, Conquest is no stranger to Stalinist atrocities, as witness his magisterial 1968 study, The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties. For Harvest he gathered a mass of scattered data, including testimony by survivors and participants, accounts...
...death among leaders of the Mozambique National Resistance (Renamo), the guerrilla movement that has been fighting Machel's government with arms and logistical support from South Africa. In a statement issued in Lisbon, Renamo said Machel's Frelimo Party "is responsible for innumerable crimes. Thus we feel no sorrow over the death of Frelimo's chief." Renamo said it would intensify its guerrilla operations, with the goal of the "total liberation of the country." Through a brutal campaign that has killed thousands of civilians and uprooted many more from their homes, Renamo already controls large areas of Mozambique, including...