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...talented guy, according to testimonials from Cary Grant, Bette Davis and Jackie Gleason. Burt also ranks his oeuvre for quality, with The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing coming in at No. 11. ("Cat Dancing was sorrow and pain," he reveals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

Hope's memorial service, at Nashville's Christ Presbyterian Church, was a showcase of faith's bulwark against sorrow. For all the tears shed, one guest called it a "victory," not just for Hope in heaven but also for David and Nancy, who had emerged with faith intact. There was, without boastfulness, a sense of a challenge met and of completion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When God Hides His Face | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...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. America had already learned to expect terror from beyond its borders. Now the country must deal with another reality: the monsters it has bred on its own. May 1, 1995 Read the Cover Story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Covers McVeigh | 5/11/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geishas & Godzillas | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Is No Candle in the Winds of Easy Empathy | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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