Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Athens flight one recent morning, dumped her suitcases on the floor, answered a number of telephone calls (sometimes two at once), ordered a glass of Fernet Branca. Then she turned to TIME'S Jordan Bonfante and submitted herself to what many prominent political leaders already know to their sorrow and awe as a Fallaci-style interview...
...greatest sorrow of the aging human being is an aching loneliness for what is gone forever...
...Sikkim Sorrow...
...only why one individual made a specific moral choice, but rather why a whole nation allowed the deportation to occur. Consequently, both these films fail to cope with the fundamental issues involved in the occupation and so offer inadequate explanations of even individual motivations. In this sense, the Sorrow and the Pity, with its comparative scope and superior analytic technique, is a more penetrating investigation of collaboration than either of these films it has inspired...
...demolishing the accepted interpretation of the occupation. The Sorrow and the Pity challenged French filmmakers to come to terms with collaboration and to uncover its roots; by revealing that the Guallist state rested on the hollow foundations of historical myth which concealed continuity in the guise of change. Ophuls lent a particular urgency to his challenge. The progeny spawned by The Sorrow and the Pity have not yet begun to exhaust the avenues of investigation it opened. Bogging down in the confused psyches of its characters and the predictable suspense of its plot, Black Thursday obscures more than it illuminates...