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...ornamented phrase (“Get your house in order!”) and the choir responds with a potent punch (“Do it today!”) One song opens with W.E.B. Du Bois’ Class of 1890 description of the “sorrow songs,” and builds on heart-rendingly bare renditions of “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” and “Down in Egypt Land,” giving a beautiful account of the origin and progression of spirituals...
...between two souls doomed to understand each other. The brilliant creepiness of the novels and the films derives from their daring to walk into the haunted house of madness, and live there. You may be able to shake off the scares and the gore of Red Dragon, but the sorrow in its unquiet heart will follow you home. --By Richard Corliss
Artist Robert Rauschenberg's cover collage encapsulating the loss and sorrow of 9/11 met with a mixed reaction. Complained a Rhode Islander: "It looks like a freshman design project; all its bits and pieces make no impact." A Californian winced at perceiving a certain countercultural element: "You should be ashamed of portraying the biggest tragedy in American history as a feel-good 1960s Woodstock party." But closer to ground zero, a New Jersey librarian welcomed Rauschenberg's gentle memorial: "I saw so many horrible pictures last September and will probably see many more. Thank you for not putting on your...
...people can make each other nuts--and sometimes seriously, violently nuts--is not a new discovery. My grandmother knew it, and my grandpa too, which is why he kept his power tools in the basement. Still, scientific protocol demands that whenever doctors set out to repackage a perennial human sorrow as a modern, billable disease, they have to act as if they are on to something big. How else could chronic sleepiness have become Primary Hypersomnia...
...Tome's eyes, the kamikazes were kids, not political symbols, and she relentlessly preached peace. "She always said, 'No one wins in war,'" recalls Hatsuyo. "To her, these boys were victims." Many of the families visiting Chiran this Aug. 15 heed her message, and express pity and sorrow rather than jingoistic pride. "I came because I wanted to know the truth," says Kazunori Matsuo, 38, who rode from Nagasaki on his motorbike. Another visitor, Kazuo Nakajima, 47, says his late father had hidden his military history. "I learned just yesterday," he says, "that my father had trained as a kamikaze...