Word: sorrowful
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...Japanese suffered the world's hatred during the war, they earned its sympathy with the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan. The old villains were now victims; those damaged faces seized the heart with the same violent poignancy as the corpses at Auschwitz. From this collective sorrow and guilt, two genres were spawned. In the Godzilla movies, atomic blasts awaken a prehistoric monster (and he still hasn't gone back to sleep; the series continues today). There were also more serious parables of doomed romance, in which an unlikely couple represents the puniness of mankind in the smirking face of Armageddon...
...room in Oklahoma City. But somewhere along the way I'd like to know: Did you find a compensating grace in McVeigh's death, some sliver of serenity that eluded you before? Are you wiser, are you lighter, is there one less drop of grief in your ocean of sorrow? Perhaps some crimes are too horrendous to be forgiven. Only retribution will do, and justly so. You can help us. We need to know...
...essential privacy of authentic human feeling, including grief; and (2) those who weep along with Elton John as he sings "Candle in the Wind" to the prostrate world, or who deposit teddy bears and such mementoes at the doorsteps of celebrities they never met. Intimacy on parade: Sorrow as pornography. Americans staged the same spectacles when John Kennedy Jr. died...
Despite such technical difficulties, Winkler and Urban deliver excellent performances. Throughout the production, it is easy to believe that they are actually Ruth and Jack, conveying both passion and sorrow with equal aplomb. Despite some of the setbacks caused by staging and effects, or the confusion created by the flashbacks, Ancient History is an enjoyable chronicle of one ill-fated relationship. The subject matter often rings true. In general, this play is a superb effort by the cast and crew, leaving the audience with one important truth: “Hell is remembering other people...
TIME 1995 Cover Package: COVER: When the Terror Comes From Within At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, a bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Its scenes of carnage unleashed fear, anger and sorrow across the nation - as well as an astonishingly swift quest for the suspected perpetrators of the slaughter. America had already learned to expect terror from beyond its borders. Now the country must deal with another reality: the monsters it has bred...