Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidential power shifts follow the unexpected episodes like the assassination of John Kennedy. On Air Force One bringing both Kennedy's body and Lyndon Johnson, the new President, back to Washington, there played out a scene of anguish and exhilaration, a weird struggle contained in the hurtling fuselage. Devastating sorrow among the Kennedy people turned to a blind hatred against the statutory heirs to power. The Johnson group, though stunned by the death of Kennedy, could scarcely contain their satisfaction at gaining the office that had eluded them in the electoral process...
Reeves presented the family with an etched glass plate as a symbol of the town's sorrow at the incident. The designer of the plate had met earlier with friends of Raustein to discuss the MIT student's interests, which were etched into the plate. Reeves said the space shuttle Challenger disaster, which appeared on the plate, greatly influenced Raustein's decision to pursue science...
Selecting readings from his two books, The Amorous Cannibal and I'm Deadly Serious, as well as from yet-unpublished manuscripts, Wallace-Crabbe showed his audience the world as he sees it: a place of endless wonder, beauty, humor and sorrow...
...Sorrow, yearning and longing are central themes on Automatic for the people. The album's last song, "Find the River," offers a dose of reserved optimism, with a hopeful piano and comforting guitar-strumming and lyrics. Stipe's last line is the happiest of them all: "All of this is coming your way." And he does send a lot out way in the most intense 49 minutes of music R.E.M. has ever recorded. Automatic for the people is not to be missed...
...Sorrow, Yearning and longing are central themes on Automatic for the People. The album's last song. "Find the River," offers a dose of reserved optimism, with a hopeful piano and comforting guitar--strumming and lyrics. Stipe's last line is the happiest of them all: "All of this is coming your way." And he does send a lot our way in the most intense 49 minutes of music R.E.M. has ever recorded. Automatic for the People is not to be missed...