Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their dachshund every day. His girlfriend is a youthful, frantically athletic woman whom he calls the Human Dynamo. She telephones lim at night from New Canaan, Conn., to wonder whether the vanity plates on her new BMW should say YOGURT or SUNDAE or MUFFIN. Stooped by his literacy and sorrow, Albert must listen to the Dynamo complain: "You don't play tennis, you don't snow-ski, you don't water-ski . . . Albert, we have nothing in common." The Dynamo later lets fly with some of her generation's ultimate obloquy...
...Sorrow and the Pity...
...Jimmy Carter. Said the Egyptian leader: "It is hard luck, but it should not dishearten the Americans from taking more action to free the hostages." Jerusalem also sent words of sympathy and encouragement. Said Israeli Premier Menachem Begin: "It could happen to anybody. We have to join the sorrow of the President of the U.S. and the American people...
Even so, Carter's presidential rivals were cautious about criticizing him. Kennedy did not utter a word of reproach. "Whatever our other differences," he said, "we are one nation in our commitment to the hostages, our concern for their families, and our sorrow for the brave men who gave their lives trying to rescue their fellow citizens." Ronald Reagan was equally restrained. Said he: "It is time for us as a nation and a people to stand united. It is a moment when words should be few and confined essentially to our prayers...
...anecdotes are often tinged by sorrow, the melancholy is appropriate. Brownlow feels a true sense of loss about the era he describes. So many of the people and landmarks are gone now; so many early films have literally turned to dust. Brownlow holds that the advent of sound robbed movies of their power to stimulate the viewers' imaginations: once the audience no longer had to imagine voices, it ceased to be an active "creative contributor to the process of making a film." Hollywood: The Pioneers offers powerful support for that belief, including a 1928 photo that draws the curtain...