Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidential palace, which had become the symbol of Chechnya's effort to secede from the Russian Federation. On Saturday they had captured the Council of Ministers building, just a few hundred yards from the palace. It was a brutal, terrifying style of warfare, as the Chechens learned to their sorrow...
...sorrow of divided nations is in the air. Rwanda and South Africa, Bosnia and Palestine have taken up permanent residence in newspaper headlines and on the television newscasts. Violence and strife between ethnic and racial groups seem staples of the post-Cold War world. With the world's attention fixed on the Balkans, hardly anyone remembers that the island of Cyprus, a country near Bosnia, has been living with the harsh realities of division and conflict for over 20 years. With a view to remedying this situation, Harvard is hosting a conference this weekend entitled "Cyprus and Its People...
...captured by Chinese soldiers and forced to fight in the North Korean army. When he tried to escape, he was sentenced to 12 years in a notorious gulag where so many inmates died of hunger, cold and beatings, he said, that "no one wept, no one expressed sorrow, no one asked how anyone died." After his release in 1964, he was sent to a coal mine, where he worked 13 years, until the dust ruined his lungs. From then on, after marrying and raising three children, he lived on meager rations and edible roots in a remote village near...
...Emma's worthless life. Giving her a gun as a gift anticipates her own desire to cut out before AIDS takes its toll. Posing as an expert on life, he spouts poetry with all sorts of pretentious and clumsy lines like "they could not hear his cries of sorrow." Evidently Silver intended a great deal with Todd's character, but his script trail him. some acceptable way of saying such silly things without cooing. Out of the struggle emerge two voices for Todd. One is angsty and rebellious, the other lilting and sentimental...
Powell's sad life and wondrous music were in large part the inspiration for filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier's fond 1986 jazz eulogy, 'Round Midnight, but what is so imposing about the music on these CDs -- immediately, insistently impressive -- is not the sorrow but the vigor. Powell's may have been a troubled spirit, compromised and violated, but it was never stilled...