Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brute beats the clown to death the heroine becomes acutely sad, whimpering at any number of things that remind her of the clown. Her owner steals away to resume his solitary wandering. Only years later, when he hears of her death, he suffers for the first time a real sorrow...
...varied as the background, the acting is intriguing. Anthony Quinn's strong man suffers only from a slightly oppressive sameness, as he so rarely allows human emotion to intrude upon his personality. Giulietta Masina has a bright-eyed face which, helped by playful makeup, registers joy and sorrow superbly; unfortunately she has few other expressions. Richard Basehart plays the disappointed clown with Puck-like alacrity...
...steps and the lancers; his father was there, resplendent in white evening gloves with the latest white stitching; his mother, who had a headache and could not come, was nonetheless gratified by the musicale-selections from Carmen, Russian airs by Wieniawski and a ballad called Love's Sorrow...
...Shaw left no children and "expressed regret that his marriage had been fruitless." The fact was, says Biographer Ervine, that Charlotte Payne-Townshend had a morbid "horror of sexual relations." But no man ever had a better helpmate than Charlotte. When she died in 1943, Shaw became "hysterical" with sorrow, shedding tears one moment and trying to sing the next...
...thousands of people. It greedily eats up millions of tons of precious Chinese earth each year, and contributes to droughts by draining the eroded earth. Though Chinese peasants have dreamed longingly of a day when its muddy waters would run crystal-clear to the sea, the "River of Sorrow" has defied every attempt to conquer...