Word: sorrowful
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When RUSSELL CROWE arrived at a Manhattan criminal court last Friday, he had the remorseful-celebrity look down pat. Funereal black suit and dark sunglasses to convey solemnity and sorrow? Check. Supportive wife (DANIELLE SPENCER) at his side, suggesting family-man stability? Check. Checkbook? Check. Crowe, who hurled a phone at a hotel clerk in June, was initially charged with a felony, which could have kept him from working in the U.S. But having paid the clerk, Nestor Estrada, a widely reported $100,000 to avoid a civil suit, Crowe pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge...
...Tony Kushner’s dramatization of the fall of Communism in Russia, the punctuation of its title is certainly unexpected. After all, whatever the play’s oft-discussed “spiritual genius of the Slavic people” actually is—suggested answers include sorrow, vodka, and the motherland—it’s pretty clear that it’s not the kind of joyful exuberance that requires an exclamation point at the end. Kushner is, of course, the type of playwright who tends to embellish everything he does with an emotional exclamation...
...Suicide bombers escape the harsh reality of dealing with life in this world: hunger, death of loved ones, frustration and tears. They don't see the carnage they cause or the grieving relatives of the victims. Instead, the bombers get a free ticket out of the world, leaving sorrow and anguish behind them. How nice for them. But they are cowards. The heroes are those who stay and help others through the suffering, regardless of the pain. Calvin Sale Klamath Falls, Oregon, U.S. I was disturbed by the article "Professor of Death" on the Iraqi insurgent who trains suicide bombers...
...colonialism, the father of apartheid. "My God, my God, what have we done in the name of that dominion and for the sake of that subjugation?" he asks. "All those countless dead, now rising up to nod their heads at us and shake their fists at us in silent sorrow and accusation." No one knows that sorrow better than Zakes Mda, whose 2000 The Heart of Redness, about the assault of modernity on traditional ways, is the most powerful novel by a black writer in recent years. Mda's The Whale Caller, published in August, is a much subtler tale...
...Dvorak: Four Piano Trios The Lanier Trio (Gasparo). The Dvorak piano trios are four of the glories of the chamber-music literature; the sorrow and the pity is that they are not known to a wider audience. The Lanier Trio -- William Preucil, violin; Dorothy Lewis, cello; and Cary Lewis, piano -- lavish impeccable ensemble and golden tone on each piece...