Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nine years after Cosette and company immigrated to the United States, it is safe to say that Alain Boubil's epic adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1500-page toms has a death grip on popular culture. It is the great international cry-fest, the teariest tear-jerker of them all. Its every laugh is tempered with reminders of the pre-revolutionary tribulations of France's lowest classes; and the jubilation of Valjean's victory over his past is mitigated by the despair of the students' doomed rebellion...
Shouldn't Ivy League admissions officers be above the culture of ghoul that one normally associates with turbulent adolescence? It renders them as parasitic and contemptible as the people who packed Courtney Love's concerts after Kurt Cobain's suicide, scrutinizing her for a tear or reference or inappropriate smile, indifferent to the music, personal disclosure being infinitely more stimulating then...
SINCE THE IRON CURTAIN FIRST started to tear in the early '80s, music lovers in the West have been exposed to a number of previously unknown composers whose reputations were obscured by the rigid Soviet system, among them Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina and Alfred Shnitke. Now comes a man who may well be the most important composer to emerge from the old Soviet Union since Dmitri Shostakovich: Giya Kancheli, 59, whose dolorous yet spiritually radiant music gives eloquent voice to the ongoing tragedy of his native Georgia...
...rougher days are ahead. The contract will be harder to pass in the Senate, where most of its provisions face Democratic filibusters. That strain could tear the lobbyists apart. The fealty of the Christian Coalition will be sorely tested, for example, if the Senate, as expected, pares the group's most cherished proposal: a new $500-a-child tax credit. The Home Builders would also revolt if Senator Bob Packwood, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, makes good on his threat to place new limits on the mortgage-interest deduction...
...mayor of Berkeley, Calif. declared today "Waving Man Day" in honor of the 80th birthday of a friendly man who, since the days of tear gas and riot police, has stood on the sidewalk in front of his house wearing bright yellow gloves and waving to passing motorists.Post to Society "Rear Window...