Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mourned with Bill Cosby because people felt they had known his son through his show. Ennis Cosby, however, was never part of a sitcom, even if his life had helped inspire one. The victim was the real son of the real Bill Cosby, whose real family was in true sorrow and mourning. And while art may hold up a mirror to life, it offers only an imperfect reflection. The story of Bill and Ennis Cosby, for the most part invisible to the public, was of a richer texture, more complicated and problematic, with real joy, with real pain, with private...
...other end of the baby boom: Gates analytically rigorous and emotionally reserved, the President equally smart but intellectually undisciplined and readily intimate. They played golf on Martha's Vineyard once, and the President, as usual, worked hard at bonding emotionally and being personally charming and intimate. He expressed sorrow about the death of Gates' mother, shared the pain of the recent death of his own mother and gave golfing tips to Melinda. But Gates noticed that Clinton never bore in or showed rigorous curiosity about technological issues. Though he vaguely considers himself a Democrat, Gates stayed neutral in the presidential...
...buzzword. The quilt was unfolded. As I walked among the panels and the marchers, it was not the handiwork but the racking sobs of the bereaved that proved unforgettable. AIDS grief has to be rationed, or the tears can become infinite; those quiltgoers had allowed themselves to remember. The sorrow was undercut only by a leather couple I saw under some nearby elms, two fellows in full bondage gear. The stern master lightly flogged his willingly shackled slave with a riding crop. "Oh, just stop," the slave complained. It had been a very long...
...shop either did not inform the mechanics of the problem or at the very least did not verify that their work was done correctly. The higher-ups wanted a scapegoat, and naturally the "little guy" was the easiest prey. Mueller's suicide only adds to the profound sorrow we feel over an accident that should never have happened. DAVID R. LOWRY Wellesley, Massachusetts...
...surprise and grief that overcame people upon the death of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Then something happened to Riemann's empire. His mortuaries still bore the name Riemann, and his sons Mike and David still managed the business. Hearses came and went trailing the usual plumes of sorrow. Outwardly, in fact, nothing seemed to have changed at all, except the Riemanns' announcement that they had taken on a new "partner," the Loewen Group, a "death-care" corporation based just outside Vancouver, Canada...