Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fashion story of Lacroix at Patou is one of triumph, the human one contains some sorrow. Jean de Mouy, then 29, had just taken over his family's perfume business when he hired the untried young designer. De Mouy's long shot triumphed, and the House of Patou was restored to its glory days of the '30s. But Picart and Lacroix made demands. They wanted to embark on ready-to-wear as soon as possible. Says Lacroix: "I was creating designs, but people couldn't afford them. I started suffering." About his chimerical designer, De Mouy is philosophical: "I still...
...deftly dodged her murderous lunge, she plunged head-first hundreds of feet down into the cavernous pit that residents once knew as the Quad Courtyard. And as she fell, arms flailing madly by her sides, I couldn't help but feel a pang of sorrow--after all, it would be many weeks before the construction men would return from their coffee break and find...
Camera on an hysterical mother blowing her nose in a hankerchief, revealing her sorrow to good Americans everywhere...
...after arriving and being greeted by President Reagan, he will confer with national Jewish leaders. Jews were upset by the Pope's audience with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, who has been accused of complicity in Nazi war crimes. John Paul attempted to mollify ill feelings with a letter expressing sorrow over the Holocaust, and will continue the fence mending at a Vatican meeting this week with Jewish officials. In Columbia, S.C., on Sept. 11, he will talk with an array of 27 leaders of non- Catholic churches, then join an ecumenical prayer service with 72,000 people. In Los Angeles...
...letters refute that claim. Those that gripe are bitterly amusing; but it is when they fail to disguise sorrow that they become poignant. Perhaps the most moving aspect of Don't Tread on Me is a negative one: Sidney Joseph Perelman promised an autobiography, and here is the only one he got around to writing. He died in 1979 at the age of 75, and wordwise, this is his last...