Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sights on America, with his first Hollywood film, Green Card. In this featherweight comedy he is a French musician looking for residence status and finding love and sweet sorrow with Andie MacDowell in exotic Manhattan. For Depardieu, though, the piece is just a five-finger exercise. Director Peter Weir, who wrote the film for the actor, is looking for charm -- any star can manufacture that -- without Depardieu's scary power. The bear is reduced to a puppy...
...matter of deep regret for all people who cherish human life. One person is responsible for the destruction that will be unleashed in the coming weeks: Saddam Hussein. His barbarous contempt for basic human rights and the norms of international conduct have brought--and will continue to bring--sorrow to countless families in Kuwait and other allied nations...
...mark the anniversary, descendants of the survivors came on foot and on horseback, some from hundreds of miles across the plains. They circled the chain-link fence around the grave site, saying their prayers in silence and burning sage for purification. South Dakota Governor George Mickelson offered words of sorrow and apology, the culmination of a "Year of Reconciliation" between whites and Indians in South Dakota. The journey to the grave site, he said, "has been a prayer and a sacrifice, a wiping away of tears...
When foreign visitors come to American cities, their reaction is almost invariably astonishment, and sorrow, at what they see on the streets. America is a wealthy nation of conspicuous ideals, one that presumes to have something to teach infant democracies all around the world. By failing to act creatively, generously and mercifully on behalf of its most desperate citizens, a country loses more than its credibility; it weakens its character. After such a long and ambivalent search for answers to this problem, Americans should rejoice that there is at last an opportunity to act on the principles they so proudly...
...deplored, and then used to great effect. How can voters fail to be cynical when politicians buy their jobs by selling favors and use the money to ensure that voters don't get much of a chance to punish them? Public opinion surveys around the nation registered disgust and sorrow at the processes by which lawmakers are elected and through which they govern. As long as American politics drifts away from democracy's dreams, the voters' only real choice will...