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...main strength of Francis Ford Coppola's new film The Outsiders is the way it subtly captures this particular human misery. His punks are "greasers" in Tulsa. Oklahoma in the 1960s, and their hangouts are playgrounds and drive-ins instead of subway stations. But the outward toughness and underlying sorrow is the same. By following the agonizing predicaments of three young greasers, the film confronts a startling yet age-old reality many adolescents finding themselves inexplicably cast in on-good roles, reflexively challenge authority because it's the only thing they know. One after-noon for Tulsa's greasers trio...
After a tour of the state last week, Prime Minister Gandhi returned to speak before a hushed session of Parliament. "I've seen the agony of Assam," she said. "My heart is filled with sorrow for all those who died." She defended her decision to hold the elections and made a strong appeal for unity to those who had criticized it. "The importance of the country's integrity and independence is higher than any movement, or any of us," she said. "To permit a few their way is to see the country torn apart...
...countless dictators. Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Márquez addressed this past last year when he accepted the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature from the Swedish Academy: "A reality not of paper, but one that lives within us ... and nourishes a source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and beauty." The problem, said the novelist, was how to tell the story. The region's writers found solutions in aesthetic imports: French surrealism, the journalistic devices of Dos Passes and Hemingway, and the narrative techniques of cinema...
...read your article on child molestation with fear and sorrow. Thousands of unenlightened people will now equate pedophilia with homosexuality. Americans should realize that the great majority of homosexuals have no designs whatsoever on children...
While the pre-game schlock gets us prepped to watch the game, the post-game interviews give us the chance to share the sorrow and the joy with our newfound intimate acquaintances. I know I would not have enjoyed John Riggins' running nearly as much if I hadn't heard him mumble his three syllables after the game...