Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sense of Loss starts out as a straightforward documentary appraisal of the situation in Northern Ireland. Marcel Ophuls' monumental previous film. The Sorrow and the Pity, (TIME, March 27), brought shape and great emotional resonance to the memories of citizens of Clermont-Ferrand during its occupation by the Germans in World War II. A Sense of Loss shows the same extraordinary compassion for people, the same rare gift for making political history real in immediate human terms. The dilemmas of occupied France emerge more clearly after nearly 30 years than do the problems of a divided Ireland, which still...
...also seemed to hint that Israel was still debating whether or not to release its Arab prisoners, though the decision had already been made not to do so. President Nixon, awakening in San Clemente when it was already early afternoon in Munich, sent an expression of sorrow to Jerusalem and ordered U.S. ambassadors in Arab capitals to press for the release of the hostages...
...drink. Broodingly, brilliantly, Ronald Pickup kindles a raging purpose in the tubercular frame of the younger brother, the playwright-to-be. To cap its triumph, the entire cast speaks American as if born to it, with a slight, finely inflected brogue that enhances the drama's keening Irish sorrow...
...publish'; it is the stopping of the heart of a nation, a laceration of its memory." When writers, as in Russia, are "condemned to create in silence until they die, never hearing the echo of their written words, then that is not only their personal tragedy, but a sorrow to the whole nation, a danger to the whole nation...and sometimes a danger to the whole of mankind...
...Stewart's Never a Dull Moment continues and solidifies the tradition of the picaresque in rock music that he established with Every Picture Tells a Story. The idea of Stewart as the eternally travelling vagabond can be traced as far back as "Man of Constant Sorrow," from his first solo album. But it is with Gasoline Alley's title song and his reworking of Elton John's "Country Comforts" that Stewart became seriously concerned with a partially autobiographical view of himself as vagabond. Since then he has rearranged his priorities in recording, and his albums, an equal measure of originals...